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Disciplinae animus attentus

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Otto van Veen
1556-1629

Disciplinae animus attentus

7 9/16 x 5 7/8 inches (191 x 150 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 22

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, "Disciplinae animús attentus (title)/ Invidús, iracúndús, iners, vinosús, amator/ Nemo adeò ferus est, qúi non mutescere possit,/ Si modo culturae patientem commodet aúrem" (The slave to envy, sloth, wine, lewdness--no one is so savage that he cannot be tamed, if only he lend to treatment a patient ear). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 1, lines 38-40.
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. 74-75, no. 134.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department