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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Amor virtutis
7 3/16 x 5 3/4 inches (181 x 147 mm)
Brush and off-white and light brown 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 10
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 on reverse, 1607.
Engraved on reverse, 1607.
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Inscribed on the album page below the design, in brown ink, "Amor virtútis (title)/ Oderúnt peccare boni virtutis amore,/ Tu nihil admittes in te formidine poenae,/ Sit Spes fallendi, miscebis sacra profanis" (The good hate vice because they love virtue; you [i.e., the slave] will commit no crime because you dread punishment. Suppose there's hope of escaping detection; you will make no difference between sacred and profane). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 16, lines 52-54.
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. 71-72, no. 122.
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