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Grande malum invidia

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Otto van Veen
1556-1629

Grande malum invidia

7 3/16 x 5 3/4 inches (183 x 147 mm)
Brush and gray and light brown oil, and pen and brown ink; on a paper prepared with a dark brown ground of lead white tinted with yellow-brown ochre and a little red in oil medium.
Van Veen Album, folio 45

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.
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, "Grande malúm invidia (title)/ Invidús alteriús maruscit rebus opimis/ Invidiá Sicúli non invenere Tyranni/ Tormentúm majús" (The envious man grows lean when his neighbor waxes fat; than envy Sicilian tyrants invented no worse torture). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 2, lines 57-59.
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. 157.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department