THOUGHT (n.)

GEDACHTE (nld.) · GEDANK (deu.) · PENSÉE (fra.)
TERM USED AS TRANSLATIONS IN QUOTATION
DESSIN (fra.) · PENSÉE (fra.) · VERBEELDING (nld.)
TERM USED IN EARLY TRANSLATIONS
PENSÉE (fra.)

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These being thus dispatch’d we are at liberty to consider the Invention [ndr : il s’agit du portrait de la comtesse Dowager of Exeter, par Van Dyck]. V. Dyck’s Thought seems to have been that the Lady should be sitting in her Own Room receiving a Visit of Condolance from an Inferiour with great Benignity ; as shall be seen presently, I would here observe the Beauty, and Propriety of this Thought. For by This the Picture is not an Insipid Representation of a Face, and Dress, but here is also a Picture of the Mind, and what more proper to a Widow than Sorrow ? And more becoming a Person of Quality than Humility, and Benevolence ?

Conceptual field(s)

L’ARTISTE → qualités
CONCEPTS ESTHETIQUES → beauté, grâce et perfection
CONCEPTS ESTHETIQUES → convenance, bienséance