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Fig. 5

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. 5

A Anthony Van Dyck, Portrait of Lord John Stuart and his Brother Lord Bernard Stuart, c. 1638. Oil on canvas, 237.5 × 146.1 cm. National Gallery (London), inv.no. NG6518. The white rectangle indicates the detail area shown in B and C. Permission to use image pending. B Detail of Lord Bernard Stuart. C Matching detail of the infrared photograph showing a dark halo along the head of Lord Bernard Stuart. Images courtesy of the National Gallery London

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