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Otto van Veen

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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Virtus in actione consistit (Virtue Consists of Action)
7 1/8 x 5 13/16 inches (181 x 147 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Van Veen Album, folio 7
Notes: 

Incised with stylus.

Provenance: 
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Bibliography: 

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 70, no. 119.

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Artist page: 
Veen, Otto van
School: 
Netherlandish
Century: 
16th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints