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On the disposal of wealth: Illustration to Horace, Carmina III, 40-45 Veen, Otto van (painter)
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Title/s	On the disposal of wealth: Illustration to Horace, Carmina III, 40-45
Maker/s	Veen, Otto van (painter) [ULAN info: Dutch artist, 1556-1629]
Category	painting
Name	painting
School/Style	Dutch
Technique Description	grisaille oil over graphite on paper marouflé on oak panel
Dimensions	height: 18.5 cm width: 14.7 cm
Provenance	given: The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1980 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) sale, Christie's, 11 December 1979 (lot 220)
Inscriptions/Marks	signature Position: verso Content: Otho Vaenius pinxit
Documentation	McGrath, Elizabeth Taking Horace at his word; two abandoned designs for Otto van Veen's "Emblemata Horatiana", Köln: Dumont Buchverlag [page: 121] Source title: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch (1994) [comments: fig. 9]
Accession Number	PD.12-1980 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 2090; Input Date: 2000-02-09 / Last Edit: 2010-06-17)

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On the disposal of wealth: Illustration to Horace, Carmina III, 40-45

Veen, Otto van (painter)