 In similar vein , The Lady 's Magazine felt that The Combat " strongly demonstrates the progress of [ Etty ] to excellence " , remarking that " never was a groupe more calculated to display the action in which the power of conquest is so eminently and fearfully delineated " and that " we have little doubt that the works of Titian were , on their first appearance ... what this piece is now . " The same correspondent did find some flaws in the overly pronounced muscles of the victor 's thigh and the lack of definition of muscle in the legs of the defeated man , but felt that despite this The Combat was " one of the finest and most masterly works that ever graced the walls of the Royal Academy . " 
