[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] The highest perfection of the paintings lies foremost therein, that these five chief principles meet eachother so pleasantly in the work and coincide so well with eachother, that they extent a certain kind of agreeability or convenance (which are commonly called the Grace and the Charm [NDR: both would be translated as Grace in English] of the paintings): As such this Grace is nothing else in nature, than a sweet and rather friendly harmony of all sorts of perfections combined in one piece of work: It is the best collection of the very best things (…) Seen that the spirit of the Invention tends to sweetly seduce our mind, that neatnes of the Proportion tends to capably pull our eyes towards it, that the adequate use of colours tends to confuse our fantasy extraordinarily by a pleasant deceit, that the liveliness of the mouvement tends to enchant our soul powerfully, that the order of the composition tends to instruct our senses in a rather miraculous way; how than can the Painting not spread a remarkable power in our hearts, in which all these principles can be found together:

While moving towards the conclusion of the third Book, Junius explains that the perfection (volmaaktheid) of an art work lies in the agreement (overeenstemming) of the five chief principles (hoofdstuk), as described in the previous chapters. He uses different terms for this perfection: aangenaamheid (agreeability), propriety (welstand), grace (gratie), charm (bevalligheid). He goes on to list the most perfect state of the different principles: spirit (geestigheid) of invention, neatness (netheid) of proportion, an adequate use (bekwaamheid) of colours, liveliness (levendigheid) of the movements and order (ordentelijkheid) in the composition. [MO]

[proposition de traduction, Léonard Pouy:] Choisissant le meilleur, voyons ainsi ce que l’on peut révéler pour l’éloge de notre art, qui, aussi abâtardi soit-il devenu, n’en retient pas moins en son état quelquechose de son rayonnement éclatant et de son charme évident.

[suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] And as all these things sufficiently prove, that the diversity of Beauty and Gracefulness with regard to the imitation in Painting, is not easily to accommodate in clearly defined rules, which one can then, as with an infallible model could overflow in Art-scenes with loveliness and without any further observation of Life; As such we should note in passing, that a diligent Painter should endeavor with all his might, through a consistent observation of all that he perceives of the human beauty, to imprint that which he deems the most exquisite of it so strongly in his mind, and to make it common to his imagination, that he will be able to depict, without its direct observation, the beauty of a Man in different ways and in distinct steps, so lovely and lively, as if he had Beauty itself before his eyes. {How Beauty has to be imprinted in the thoughts and mind of the Painter.} And he will be able to do this best, when he has not only studied well and carefully which Parts and Elements have been beautifully made, and which Proportion they should have, to depict them with the Draught; but then especially, when with regard to all the previous, will have observed precisely by which Step and coincidence this and other parts unites, lessens or increases the Beauty in this or that object to the whole:

Goeree explains the artistic process by which the artist may reach Beauty (schoonheid, bevalligheid, aangenaamheid), especially in relation to the process of imitation (navolging), observation (waarneming, beschouwing) of life and imagination. [MO]