A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 168
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Chap. CLXVIII.—How to paint old Women.
Old women, on the contrary, are to be represented bold and quick, with passionate motions, like furies[1]. But the motions are to appear a great deal quicker in their arms than in their legs.
- ↑ The author here speaks of unpolished Nature; and indeed it is from such subjects only, that the genuine and characteristic operations of Nature are to be learnt. It is the effect of education to correct the natural peculiarities and defects, and, by so doing, to assimilate one person to the rest of the world.