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THE PAINTER'S HORSE. 



horses with marvellous correctness, as we may see in his 

 " Napoleon i^^" (Fig. 208), and in " 1814" (Fig. 209). 



The stencil-plate man generally represents the walk by 

 the action of the trot. Even the great and careful painter 



Fig. 208. — Meissonier's Napoleon i' 



Gericault sinned in this respect, as we may notice in the 

 mounted horse of the pair shown in Fig. 210. The Arab 

 horse, which forms the second drawing in this figure, is repre- 

 sented at the amble. Gericault evidently meant them to be 

 at the walk, at which corrected pace Colonel Duhousset {see 



