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From: The dark halo technique in the oeuvre of Michael Sweerts and other Flemish and Dutch baroque painters. A 17th c. empirical solution to mitigate the optical ‘simultaneous contrast’ effect?

Fig. 2

Unfinished paintings displaying dark halos around the heads of the sitters. A Peter Lely, Portrait of James II when Duke of York, c. 1665–70. Oil on canvas, 51.4 × 45.1 cm. National Portrait Gallery (London), inv.no. NPG5211. Image: ©National Portrait Gallery London. B Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait), 1796. Oil on canvas, 121.9 × 94 cm. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; owned jointly with Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), inv.no. NPG.80.115. Image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. C Jacques-Louis David, Oath at the Tennis Court, 1791–92. Oil, black chalk and bistre on canvas, 370 × 654 cm. Musée National de Château de Versailles, inv.no. MV5841. Image from the Google Art Project: see https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/fAER0Kl7k5kYEQ

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