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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Animus purgandus
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (181 x 146 mm)
Brush and light brown and gray oil, and pen and brown ink, with opque white; 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 19
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, "Animús purgandús (title)/ Sincerúm est nisi vas, qúod cúmqúe infundis acescit" (Unless the vessel is clean, whatever you pour in turns sour). The test is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 2, line 54.
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. 74, no. 131.
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