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86 THE ARTIST'S ASSISTANT.
which hai'e fome apparent relation to each other.
In a good painting, it isneceflary that all the figures
be divided into two or three groops, or fcparate col-
lections. Such and fuch a thing make a group, with
fuch and fuch other of different nature and kind.
The antique Laomcdon is a fine group, of three beau-
tiful figures.
O
The perfpective muft be regular, and not of fimple
practice, very little exact.
In the colons, which includes two things, the local
colour, and the clair-obicure.
The local colour is nothing elfe but that, which is
natural to each object, in what place foever it be
found.
The clair-obfeure, is the art of diftributing advan-
tageoufly the lights and fha 11 on the par-
ticular objects, as in the whole of the picture : on the
particular objects, to give them a convenient relievo
and roundneLs : and in the whole of the picture, that
the objects may befeen in it with pleafurc : by giving
occaiion to the light to reft itfeff from fpace to fpace,
by an ingenious diftribution of grand clairs, and
large fhadows, which afford one another mutual fuc-
cours, by their oppositions ; fo that the great clairs
are rcfts for the great fhadows; as the great fhadows
will be refts for the great clairs.
In the defcription of colours there muft be an ac-
cord, which may produce the fame effect for the eves,
as mufic does for the ears.
If there be fcveral groups of clair-obfcure- in a
picture, one of them muft be more fenfible than the
reft, fo that there may be unity of object, as in the
compofition there is unitv of fubject.
As to the pencil, it muft be bold, and light, if pof-
fible; but whether it appears fmooth; like that of Cor-
* resdo.
which hai'e fome apparent relation to each other.
In a good painting, it isneceflary that all the figures
be divided into two or three groops, or fcparate col-
lections. Such and fuch a thing make a group, with
fuch and fuch other of different nature and kind.
The antique Laomcdon is a fine group, of three beau-
tiful figures.
O
The perfpective muft be regular, and not of fimple
practice, very little exact.
In the colons, which includes two things, the local
colour, and the clair-obicure.
The local colour is nothing elfe but that, which is
natural to each object, in what place foever it be
found.
The clair-obfeure, is the art of diftributing advan-
tageoufly the lights and fha 11 on the par-
ticular objects, as in the whole of the picture : on the
particular objects, to give them a convenient relievo
and roundneLs : and in the whole of the picture, that
the objects may befeen in it with pleafurc : by giving
occaiion to the light to reft itfeff from fpace to fpace,
by an ingenious diftribution of grand clairs, and
large fhadows, which afford one another mutual fuc-
cours, by their oppositions ; fo that the great clairs
are rcfts for the great fhadows; as the great fhadows
will be refts for the great clairs.
In the defcription of colours there muft be an ac-
cord, which may produce the fame effect for the eves,
as mufic does for the ears.
If there be fcveral groups of clair-obfcure- in a
picture, one of them muft be more fenfible than the
reft, fo that there may be unity of object, as in the
compofition there is unitv of fubject.
As to the pencil, it muft be bold, and light, if pof-
fible; but whether it appears fmooth; like that of Cor-
* resdo.