lead white
Americannoun
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Wright adopted Caravaggio’s lead white ground and midbrown overlay, as well as his flushed cheeks, pale necks and fleshy pink velvets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
They both painted in contrasting dark and light hues, favoring palettes of darker, earthy pigments: bone black, ocher, umber, siennas and lead white.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2019
In the days before he started the painting, he explained, his longtime studio assistant, the painter Juan Gomez, had prepared the canvas by applying five undercoats—three coats of gesso and two coats of lead white.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
Walker also used lead white paint, Martin found; the forger used zinc white.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2018
Lydia Day listened, her dark, handsome face of a lead white, while the man seated at the table opposite to her condemned her son utterly as one who was flinging away a fine chance.
From Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mann, Mary E.
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