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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
A Musis aeternitas
7 3/16 x 5 3/4 inches (182 x 146 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; incised with the stylus.
Van Veen Album, folio 76
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, "A Músis aeternitas (title) / Dignúm laude virúm Musa vetat mori / Caelo Músa beat ('Tis the Muse forbids the hero worthy of renown to perish. 'Tis the Muse bestows the boon of Heaven). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book IV, 8, lines 28-29.
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. 188.
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