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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Virtutis gloria
7 1/16 x 5 7/8 inches (180 x 148 mm)
Brush and gray oil, and pen and brown ink, with brown wash; 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 2
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, "Virtútis gloria (title) / Res gerere et captos ostendere civibus hostes / attingit soliúm Jovis et caelestia tentat" (To achive great deeds and to display captive foemen to one's fellow citizens is to touch the throne of Jove and to scale the skies). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 17, lines 33-34.
Bibliography
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. 69, no. 114.
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