Moreover neither the sculptor nor the painter gives us less valuable work when they offer us a bust or a painted head only instead of the whole figure; and yet we have never seen in reality a human body ending at the chest.

We admire a fine etching hardly less than a painting.

Here we have neither the plastic effect of the sculpture nor the color of the painting.

The essential features of the real model are left out.

As an imitation it would fail disastrously.