A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 325
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Chap. CCCXXV.—How to draw a Landscape.
Contrive that the trees in your landscape be half in shadow and half in the light. It is better to represent them as when the sun is veiled with thin clouds, because in that case the trees receive a general light from the sky, and are darkest in those parts which are nearest to the earth.