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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Diuturna quies vitiis alimentum
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (181 x 147 mm)
Brush and light brown gray oil, and pen and brown ink; on a paper prepared with a red-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 23
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, "Diútúrna qúies vitiis alimentum (title)/ ____ et ni/ Poscas ante diem librum cúm lúmine, si non/ Intendes animúm stúdiis et rebus honestis,/ Invidiâ vel amore vigil torquebere" (So, if you don't call for a book and a light before daybreak, if you don't devote your mind to honorable studies and pursuits, envy or passion will keep you awake in torment). The title is a proverb: "Diuturna quies vitiis alimentum ministrat". The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 2, lines 34-37.
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. 75, no. 135.
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