Mengs, Anton Raphael; Nibiano, José Nicolás de Azara de [Editor]; Mengs, Anton Raphael [Contr.]: The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs: first painter to His Catholic Majesty Charles III. (Band 2) (London: Faulder, 1796)

32 THE WORKS OP

DESCRIPTION
OF THE
PRINCIPAL PAINTINGS
OF THE
ROYAL PALACE

AT
MADRID.
IN the hall where the King dresses, are placed
the major part of the said paintings; parti-
cularly of the three authors, James Velasquez,
Ribera, and Morillo. But what difference be-
tween them ! what knowledge and truth of
clare obseure do we not find in Velasquez! how
well he underftood the essect which the air has
when interposed between the objects, to make
appear distant the one from the other ! and
what study for any professor who would with to
consider the paintings of that author exifting in