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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Voluptatum usurae morbi et miseriae
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (182 x 146 mm)
Brush and light brown and gray oil, and pen and brown ink; on a paper prepared with a light brown ground of lead white tinted with yellow-brown ochre and a little red in oil medium; incised with the stylus.
Van Veen Album, folio 16
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
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Watermark: since the drawings are laid down, no watermarks, if any, are visible, even with fiber-optic light.
Engraved in reverse, 1607.
Also see records on Van Veen Album (III, 146-157).
Engraved in reverse, 1607.
Also see records on Van Veen Album (III, 146-157).
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Inscribed on the album page below the design, in brown ink, "Voluptatúm úsúrae morbi et miseriae (title) / Sperne voluptates, nocet emta dolore voluptas" (Scorn pleasures; pleasure bought with pain is harmful). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 2, line 55.
Bibliography
Stampfle 1991 Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 73, no. 128.
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