A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 42

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Chap. XLII.—Fat Subjects have small Muscles.

Though fat people have this in common with muscular men, that they are frequently short and thick, they have thin muscles; but their skin contains a great deal of spongy and soft flesh full of air; ​for that reason they are lighter upon the water, and swim better than muscular people.

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