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Otto van Veen
1556-1629
Avaritiae malum
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
7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (182 x 146 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Van Veen Album, folio 42
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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).
Inscription:
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.
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
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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