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Fig. 4

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. 4

Paintings displaying a dark halo around animals or inanimate objects. A Frans Francken the Younger, Art cabinet with Scholars around a Globe, 1612. Oil on panel, 89.2 × 109.2 cm. Private collection. The white rectangle indicates the area of the detail shown in B. B Detail of the dark halo around the dog. Permission to use image pending. C Pieter Codde, A Painter in his Studio, Tuning a Lute, 1629(?). Oil on panel, 41 × 54 cm. Salomon Lilian (Amsterdam). The white rectangle indicates the area of the detail shown in D. D Detail showing the dark halo around the top part of the cello. Permission to use image pending

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