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Crapula ingenium offuscat

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Otto van Veen
1556-1629

Crapula ingenium offuscat

7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (181 x 147 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.
Van Veen Album, folio 17

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
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).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the album page below the design, in brown ink, "Crapúla ingeniúm offúscat (title)/ - qúin corpus onustum/ Hesternis vitiis animúm qúoqúe praegravat uná,/ Atque affigit húmo divinae particúlam aúrae./ Alter úbi dicto citiús cúrata sorpori/ Membra dedit, vegetús praescripta ad munia surgit" (Nay more, clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags down with itself the mind as well, and fastens to earth a fragment of the divine spirit). The text is from Horace, "Satires", Book II, 2, lines 77-81.
Bibliography
Netherlandish drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and Flemish drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library / Felice Stampfle ; with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. New York : The Library, 1991, p. 73, no. 129.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department