The art of painting, in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, and their perfections and oversights laid open (1738)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Fritsch, John Frederick · London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton ... [and 17 others] · leaf 353
Chap. 20. Of Lights and Shades. 247 ceive it at ten Feet Diftance? nay, who ever faw fuch a Painting, or did it ? But the Cafe is not, whether there.have been fuch Pictures; butwhether they ought to be fo? We are not ignorant, that tis the Cuftom.to finilh fmall Pieces, the fmaller the neater *,…
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