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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Sic vivamus ut mortem non metuamus
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (180 x 147 mm)
Brush and off-white 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; incised with the stylus.
Van Veen Album, folio 93
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, "Sic vivamús út mortem non metúamús (title) / Eheú fugaces Postúme, Postume / Labúntúr anni, nec pietas moram / Rúgis, aút instanti senectae / Afferet, indomitaeque morti" (Alas, O Postumus, Postumus, the years glide swiftly by, nor will righteousness give pause to wrinkles, to advancing age, or Death invincible). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book II, 14, lines 1-4.
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. 96, no. 205.
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