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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Liberali homini volunt omnes quam optime
7 3/16 x 5 13/16 inches (183 x 148 mm)
Brush and light brown and gray oil, and pen and brown ink; on a paper prepared with a red-brown ground of lead white tinted with yellow-brown ochre and a little red in oil medium.
Van Veen Album, folio 56
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, "Liberali homini volunt omnes quam optimè (title) / At si condolúit tentatúm frigore corpus / Aút aliús casus lecto te affixit, / habes qúi / Assideat, fomenta paret, medicum roget, út te / Suscitat ac reddat natis, carisque propinqúis" (But if your body is seized with a chill and racked with pain, or some other mishap has pinned you to your bed, have you someone to sit with you, to get lotions ready, to call in the doctor so as to raise you up and restore you to your children and dear kinsman?) The text is from Horace, "Satires", Book I, 1, lines 80-83.
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. 168.
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