Otto van Veen

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Otto van Veen

1556-1629

Pecunia donat omnia

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.

7 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (182 x 155 mm)

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

Van Veen Album, folio 61

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, "Pecúnia donat omnia (title) / Scilicet uxorem cúm dote, fidemque, et amicos / Et genús et formam Regina pecúnia donat, / Ac benè númmatúm decorat Suadela Venusque" (Of course a wife and dowry, credit and friends, birth and beauty are the gifts of Queen Cash, and the goddesses Persuasion and Venus who grace the man who is well to do). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 6, lines 36-38.

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. 86, no. 173.

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