OCR Text |
Show Art In the Ilind. The . peculiar character of the hand Is so earnestly considered by the artist that be places Ulna good light and natural position with no lets care than he gives to tho hea) of bis sitter. To give a phlegmatic hand to a clever and active person, or a nervous, Intellectual hand to a lazy one, would destroy tho value of the portrait. This Is instanced very finely In Bonnat's portrait of John Taylor Johnson, and In St. Gau-deni' Gau-deni' recently finished statue of Abraham Lincoln, In both of which works the treatment of tho hands Is In the highest degree masterly and suggestive of the personality of the original. Ex. |