4009430A Treatise on Painting — Of ShadowsJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CLXXXIX.Of Shadows.

Those shadows which in Nature are undetermined, and the extremities of which can hardly be perceived, are to be copied in your painting in the same manner, never to be precisely finished, but left confused and blended. This apparent neglect will shew great judgment, and be the ingenious result of your observation of Nature.