Otto van Veen

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Otto van Veen

1556-1629

Anxia divitiarum cura

Brush and gray and light brown oil, and pen and brown ink; on a paper prepared with a dark brown ground of lead white tinted with yellow-brown ochre and a little red in oil medium.

7 1/8 x 5 13/16 inches (181 x 148 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Van Veen Album, folio 51

Notes:

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, "Anxia divitiarúm cura (title)/ Desiderantem quod satis est, neque/ Túmúltúosúm sollicitat mare/ Nec saevus Arcturi cadentis/ Impetus, aut orientis haedi./ Non verberate grandine vinea/ Fúndúsque mendax, arbore núnc aquas/ Cúlpante, núnc torrentia agros/ Sidera, núnc hyemes iniquas" (He who longs for only what he needs is troubled not by stormy seas, not by the lashing of vineyards with the hail, nor by the treachery of his farm, the trees complaining now of too much rain, now of the dog-star parching the fields, now of the cruel winters). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book III, 1, lines 25-28.

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. 83, no. 163.

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