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THE PAINTER'S HORSE. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



THE PAINTERS HORSE 



Horses have been treated by painters, and also by sculptors, 

 m a very unhandsome way, and especially by English so- 



e Pdffer 

 do^^rc* Pairocel 



Fig 397 — [Copied ft oin Dtchousset) LOUIS XV. 



called artists who continue to perpetuate the conventional 

 or stencil-plate animal in a style long since forsaken by con- 

 tinental draughtsmen. There are, of course, several brilliant 

 exceptions. The most usual faults of conformation to be 

 seen in horse pictures, are absurdly small heads and ex- 

 travagantly long hind-quarters, from point of hip to point 

 of buttock, as we may see in Figs. 397 and 398. The 

 former is a sketch of an equestrian portrait, by the French 



