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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Cunctos mors una manet
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (182 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.
Van Veen Album, folio 99
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, "Cúnctos mors úna manet (title)/ Pallida mors aeqúo púlsat pede paúperum tabernas/ Regúmque túrres" (Pale death with foot impartial knocks at the poor man's cottage and at princes' palaces). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book I, 4, lines 13-14.
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. 97-98, no. 211.
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