Subdued Blue These Are Often Beautifully Opposed In Nature Being

: ON THE TERTIARY, RUSSET.

medial accordances or in equal relation to light, shade and other

colours, and among the most agreeable to sense.



Russet, as we have said, partakes of the relations of red, but it is a

hue moderated in every respect, and qualified for greater breadth of

display in the colouring of nature and art; less so, perhaps, than its

fellow-tertiaries in proportion as it is individually more beautiful.

The powers of beauty are ever most effective when least obtrusive; and

its presence in colour should be chiefly evident to the eye that seeks

it--not so much courting as being courted.



Of the tertiary colours, russet is the most important to the artist; and

there are many pigments classed as red, purple, &c., which are of russet

hues. But there are few true russets, and only one original pigment of

that colour is now known on the palette, to wit--



TTITLE RUBENS' MADDER,



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