Also 8–9 clare-obscure, 8 (Fr.) clair-obscur. [a. F. clair-obscur, transl. of It. chiaroscuro.] = CHIAROSCURO.

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1717.  Prior, Alma, II. 25. Masters in the clare-obscure.

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1740.  Crispe, in Phil. Trans., XLI. 494. The Clair-Obscur … in the other Pictures, is well understood.

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1789.  P. Smyth, trans. Aldrich’s Archit. (1818), 28. All those paintings … except some clair-obscures on out-walls.

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1836–7.  Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., II. xxviii. 171. The colours … appear only as different gradations of clare-obscure.

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1862.  Thornbury, Turner, I. 89. Abraham Pether … knew, however, little of clair-obscure.

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