A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
Of the Postures of Women and young People
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Chap. CVII.Of the Postures of Women and young People.

It is not becoming in women and young people to have their legs too much asunder, because it denotes boldness; while the legs close together shew modesty.