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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Pecunia donat omnia
7 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (182 x 155 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 61
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, "Pecúnia donat omnia (title) / Scilicet uxorem cúm dote, fidemque, et amicos / Et genús et formam Regina pecúnia donat, / Ac benè númmatúm decorat Suadela Venusque" (Of course a wife and dowry, credit and friends, birth and beauty are the gifts of Queen Cash, and the goddesses Persuasion and Venus who grace the man who is well to do). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 6, lines 36-38.
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. 86, no. 173.
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