4007576A Treatise on Painting — How to represent old MenJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CLXVII.How to represent old Men.

Old men must have slow and heavy motions; their legs and knees must be bent when they are standing, and their feet placed parallel and wide asunder. Let them be bowed downwards, the head leaning much forward, and their arms very little extended.