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399). Meissonier drew horses with marvellous correctness, 

 as we may see in his ** Napoleon i'^" (Fig. 400), and in 

 '*i8i4" (Fig. 401). He was not alone attentive to truth 

 in the proportions of his horses ; but was also singularly 

 happy in catching the character of different classes and 



Fig 399— Horse and Rider in ihe Parthenon 



breeds : for instance, compare (leaving out the question of 

 attitude) the Arab horse in Fig. 400 with that in Fig. 281. 

 Some represent the walk by the action of the trot. 

 Even G6ricault gave the movements of the amble for 

 those of the walk, as Duhousset shows us in Le Cheval, 

 A well-known English artist drew a picture of Napoleon's 

 charger, Marengo (Fig. 407), balancing himself on a fore 

 and hind leg of the same side ! Artists of the present time 

 have no excuse for similar lapses into error ; for they have 

 the results of the researches of Marey, Muybridge, Anschutz, 

 and other photographers to guide them. Photography 

 proves that the walk (Figs. 402, 403, 404, and some of 

 the series, Figs. 96 to 106), trot (Figs. 69, 208 and 405), 



