"The countenance expresses a stern unquestioned severity of {29}
dominion, with a certain sadness. The lips are beautiful, susceptible
of expressing scorn, but not without sweetness. With fine lips a person
is never wholly bad, and they never belong to the expression of
emotions purely selfish, lips being the seat of imagination. The
drapery is finely conceived; and the manner in which the act of
throwing back one leg is expressed in the diverging folds of the
drapery of the left breast, fading in bold, yet graduated lines, into a
skirt, as it descends from the left shoulder, is admirably imagined."