Ten or twelve strokes of the brush sufficed to outline a figure the size of life.

The whole head, from the nape of the neck to the rise of the throat above the collar-bone, was executed at one sweep.

Two long undulating lines gave the external contour of the body from the armpits to the ends of the feet.

Two more determined the outlines of the legs, and two the arms.

The details of costume and ornaments, at first but summarily indicated, were afterwards taken up one by one, and minutely finished.