This spurious tone is produced instinctively through uncertainty as to the means of attaining a genuine effect; so that instead of completeness, monotony is the result.
WEAK COLOURING.
It is owing to the same uncertainty that the colours are sometimes so much broken as to have the effect of a grey camayeu, the handling being at the same time as delicate as possible.
The harmonious contrasts are often found to be very happily felt in such pictures, but without spirit, owing to a dread of the motley.