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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. 3

A Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Roman Emperor Aulus Vitellius, c. 1618–19. Oil on panel, 33.3 × 26.7 cm. Private collection, Europe. The white rectangle indicates the area of the detail shown in B. B Detail showing a dark halo along the contour of Aulus Vitellius’ face. Images courtesy of Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam. C Jan Steen, The Ill Woman, c. 1663–66. Oil on canvas, 76 × 63.5 cm. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inv.no. SK-C-230. The white rectangles indicate the areas of the details shown in D and E. D Detail showing a dark halo around the doctor. E Detail showing a dark halo around the legs of the doctor. Images courtesy of the Rijksmuseum. F Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck, Regentesses of the St. Elisabeth’s Hospital in Haarlem, 1641. Oil on canvas, 156.9 × 214.7 cm. Frans Hals Museum, inv.no. os1-622. The white rectangle indicates the area of the detail shown in G. G Detail showing a dark halo along the head of one of the regentesses. Images courtesy of the Frans Halsmuseum. Photography by Margareta Svensson

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