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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Aeternum sub sole nihil
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (182 x 146 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; incised with the stylus.
Van Veen Album, folio 92
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, "Aeternúm súb sole nihil (title) / ___ mortalia facta peribúnt / Nedúm sermonúm stet homos et gratia vivax" (All mortal things shall perish, much less shall the glory and glamour of speech endure and live). The text is from Horace, "Ars poetica", lines 68-69.
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. 96, no. 204.
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