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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Amicitiam fovet munificentia
7 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (182 x 149 mm)
Brush and light brown 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 55
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, "Amicitiam fovet munificentia (title)/ __ si cognatos núllo natura labore/ Qúos tibi dat retinere velis, servareque amicos/ Infelix operam perdas: út si quis asellum/ In campum doceat parentum cúrrere frenis" (When nature gives you kinsfolk without a trouble, if you sought to hold and keep their love, would it be as fruitless a waste of effort, as if one were to train an ass to race upon the Campus obedient to the rein?). The text is from Horace, "Satires, Book I, 1, lines 88-91.
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. 84, no. 167.
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