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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Scene in a Burning City
7 5/16 x 5 13/16 inches (187 x 147 mm)
Brush and gray and light brown oil, and pen and brown ink; on a paper prepared with a brown ground of lead white tinted with yellow-brown ochre and a little red in oil medium.
Van Veen Album, folio 75
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.
Not engraved in the 1607 or 1612 editions of the "Emblemata Horatiana".
Possibly this sheet, unknown in purpose, was substituted by the collector who arranged Van Veen's drawings in the Morgan album for one of the two designs he lacked from the 1607 "Emblemata".
Also see records on Van Veen Album (III, 146-157).
Not engraved in the 1607 or 1612 editions of the "Emblemata Horatiana".
Possibly this sheet, unknown in purpose, was substituted by the collector who arranged Van Veen's drawings in the Morgan album for one of the two designs he lacked from the 1607 "Emblemata".
Also see records on Van Veen Album (III, 146-157).
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Not inscribed.
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. 91, no. 187.
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