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Curae inevitabiles

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Otto van Veen
1556-1629

Curae inevitabiles

7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (181 x 145 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 44

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

Notes
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, "Curae inevitabiles (title)/ Scandit aeratas vitiosa naves/ Cúra nec turmas equitúm relinqúit/ Ocior cervis, et agente nimbos/ Ocior aúrá" (Morbid care boards even the brass-bound galley, nor fails to overtake the troops of horse, swifter than stags, swifter than Eurus when he drives the storm before him). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book II, 16, lines 21-24.
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. 81, no. 156.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department