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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Nimius paupertatis metus
7 3/16 x 5 11/16 inches (182 x 144 mm)
Brush and off-white opaque watercolor, and gray 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.
Van Veen Album, folio 39
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, "Nimiús paúpertatis metús (title) / Sic qúi paúperiem veritús, potiore metallis / Libertate caret, dominúm vehet improbús, atque / Serviet aeternum qúia parvo nesciat úti" (So he who through fear of poverty forfeits liberty, which is better than mines of wealth, will in his avarice carry a master, and be a slave for ever, not knowing how to live on little). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 10, lines 39-43.
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. 80, no. 151.
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