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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Morte linquenda omnia
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (180 x 147 mm)
Brush and gray and light brown 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 95
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, "Morte linquenda omnia (title) / Linqúenda tellús et domus, et placens / Uxor neqúe harúm, qúas colis, arborúm / Te praeter invisas cupressos / Ulla brevem dominúm sequetur. / Absúmet heres caecúba dignior / Servata centúm clavibús, et mero / Tinget pavimentúm súperbo/ Pontificúm potiore coenis" (Earth we must leave, and home and darling wife; nor of the trees thou tendest now, will any follow thee, its short-lived master, except the hated cypress. A worthier heir shall drink thy Caecuban now guarded by a hundred keys, and drench the pavement with glorious wine choicer than that drunk at the pontiffs' feasts). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book II, 14, lines 21-28.
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. 96-97, no. 207.
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