Many of the most celebrated painters, both Italians and Flemings, in avoiding the coldness of a white or a grayish ground for their subjectiles, have gone into the other extreme by choosing one of light or of deep red ochre. Hence their pictures have darkened. There are several examples of this effect in the productions of two celebrated French painters who adopted the same usage, Poussin and Lebrun: their works, especially those of the former, are almost entirely disfigured by his brown tint, which has made its way through their carnations and even all the rest.,A just mean will be had between the coldness of gray grounds and the too great intensity of red-brown, by selecting orange; an orange, however, in which the yellow predominates, not the red.,