Abstract
Although Dr. Sohrab's suggestion is interesting, we present a more likely explanation of the blurry garment worn by one of the “Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse” (1664) by Frans Hals. One of us (A.E.) is curator at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands, and studied the original painting more precisely. The woman (third from the left) is wearing a different white garment than the other Regentesses. Frans Hals tried to reproduce the semi-transparency of the …
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