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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Avaritiae malum
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (182 x 146 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. Traces of old measuring marks along the edges of the paper, in brown ink, at intervals of about 13 mm
Van Veen Album, folio 42
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, "Avaritiae malúm (title)/ Crescentem sequitur cúra pecúniam/ Majorumque fames" (Yet as money grows, care and greed for greater riches follow). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book III, 16, lines 17-18.
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. 154.
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