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At first the entire figure was painted in greyish-brown tones, with very little flesh colour, the whole blending perfectly with the greyish-brown of the prepared canvas ; then the entire background would be intensified a little ; then the figure made a little stronger ; then the background, and so on from day to day and week to week, and often from month to month .... And so the portrait would really grow, really develop as an entirety, very much as a negative under the action of the chemicals comes out gradually — light, shadows, and all from the very first faint indications to their full values.
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