This text discusses the relationship between sculpture, painting, and drawing, emphasizing how modern sculptors display precision similar to that of skilled painters. It highlights that both arts, sculpture, and painting, aim to imitate nature but through different methods. It also explores painters' views on the integration of coloring with drawing, noting that those deeply engrossed in drawing may find coloring challenging due to their developed drawing habits.
Drawing
So we see our most famous modern sculptors drawing with a finesse and precision that even the most skillful painters would struggle to match. Presently, sculpture and painting each proceed in their own way to reach their common goal, which is the imitation of nature; sculpture through the relief of materials, and painting with colors on a flat surface. It is on this latter that we will speak, to carry it through to the end of its career. The order outlined so far has always related to the study of drawing; we now have to say something about coloring.
On Coloring
Several painters believe that in the study of drawing, the study of coloring is mixed in, because, they say, even very good draftsmen, having enjoyed drawing's charms for too long, filled their minds so much with it that coloring found no place. As they were too advanced in drawing, they easily became discouraged by the practice of coloring, which troubled them: thus they returned to the pleasure they found in the habit of drawing they had developed; for one indeed tends to do easily what one finds easy.