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THE HORSE. 



In horses of delicate constitution, the rocking is the 

 indication of fatigue of the articulations, and can be caused 

 by weakness and age. 



In concluding this chapter, and in reply to the 

 dubitative form expressed by Winkelmann, the learned 

 author previously quoted, it may be said that when the 



artist represents 

 two feet of the 

 same lateral face 

 in the air (c, e, 

 fig. 4 A), he will 

 place them very 

 close to one 

 another, for this 

 can only be seen 

 when the pos- 

 terior foot,about 

 to place itself 

 upon the trail of the anterior of the same side, is on the 

 point of attaining its aim by placing itself in the trace 

 of the first. This is the excessively brief instant, during 

 which all the weight of the horse reposes upon the 

 lateral biped (a, b), opposite that which is in the air (c, e). 

 The appui upon the lateral base, which, as has been 

 before observed, is formed by the two feet on the earth 

 on the same side (a, b), has just been treated ; every time 

 these two feet are drawn at the appui, it is essential that 

 their elongation, one from the other, be that of a complete 



step. 



Passing on to the diagonal base, the two feet which 

 constituted it, by their appui, are brought nearer to the 

 half-length of the step (a 1 , F, fig. 4, B), whilst the feet in 

 the air are at a greater distance from each other, i.e., 

 at the support (H) on the cessation of the appui (G). 



These resources are considerably less for the sculptor 

 than for the draughtsman and artist ; having neither 

 ground nor sky at his disposal, he must apply himself 

 the more assiduously to the reproduction of a movement 

 which can be regarded without fatigue, whilst at the 

 same time it is frankly a reproduction and limited. 



To stereotype a violent motion in the middle of its 

 movement is to convert it to immobility ; the artist 



