Unlike the preceding, most of the works of José Villegas were of full size; in them he handled the draperies well, though at times falling into mannerisms, as did Zacarias also, in exaggerating movements and delicacy in them. His faces are less pleasing. His _Santa Teresa_, larger than life, belonging to the church of that name in Puebla, offers a good example of draperies, and presents the feature,--common to all the works of the sculptors of this school, of a pursing of the lips, with the purpose of making the mouth appear smaller. Each of the three artists named had some quality in which he was distinguished from the others; one in the attractiveness of the faces, another in the greater attention to the natural, the other in the regular proportions and in having preferred to make figures of life size. After them the school decayed and died. THE WORKS OF TOLSA. Tolsa did not make many statues, since another art robbed him of a great part of the time which he might have given to sculpture. The few, which remain, suffice to show his knowledge, his talent, his brilliancy and his power. Besides the superb equestrian statue of Charles IV, legitimate pride of the City of Mexico, he made the principal statues of the _tabernaculo_ of the Cathedral of Puebla, those of the clock of the Cathedral of Mexico and some pieces in wood. Only two of his sculptures were run in bronze, the _Charles IV_, and the _Conception_, of the _tabernaculo_, the others which adorn this, and which represent the four great doctors of the Latin Church, being of white stucco, imitating marble, and those of the façade of the Cathedral of Mexico, which represent the three virtues, being of stone. The size selected for all of these is the colossal, which so well lends itself to the grand. And this is Tolsa, beyond all, grand in proportions, in type conceptions, in postures, in gestures, in dress. The horse of the statue of the Spanish monarch, treated after the classic, is of beautiful outline, natural movement, graceful and animated in the extreme; as for the figure of the king, although a little heavy, it is majestic, in movement well harmonized with that of the noble brute, and forms with it a beautiful combination of lines. There has been abundant reason for counting it one of the best equestrian statues. The remaining sculptures of Tolsa, that is, the _Doctors_, the _Conception_, and the _Virtues_, are distinguished by the movement, which gives them an appearance full of grace and life. All reveal sufficient personality combined with conscientious study of the antique. If one sought to find defects he might say that at times he is heavy, over-emphasizes and gives a berninesque execution to his draperies. In wood, he has left two heads of the _Dolorosa_ and a _Conception_, artistically colored. BALTASAR DE ECHAVE.