GIVING THE IDEA OF MOTION. 



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canter (choose from series, Figs. 123 to 132), gallop (Fig. 

 406), and leap (Figs. 195 to 199, 200, 204, 206 and 409) 

 can be drawn artistically and truthfully at the same time. 

 A combination of these two conditions is harder to find in 

 the canter, and especially in the gallop, than in the other 

 movements. The difficulty, here, lies in the nature of the 

 action rather than in the speed of the pace ; for the eye can, 



Fig. 400. — Meissonier's Napoleon i^\ 



for instance, follow the order in which the limbs work far 

 more easily in the fastest trot or amble than in the slowest 

 walk. Here we come to the noteworthy truth that the 

 eye will seldom recognise as true in Art what it has 

 not actually seen in Nature. The distance from which we 

 usually look at the movements of a horse's legs in the 

 canter or gallop is usually too close to permit us to take 

 in all four together at the same moment. Hence, when 



