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The Night Watch

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Title

The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the 'Night Watch'

Year

1642

Artist

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

363 x 437 cm

Object number

SK-C-5

De compagnie van Frans Banning Cocq en Willem van Ruytenburch, bekend als de 'Nachtwacht'
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The Night Watch, the most famous painting in the Rijksmuseum, actually has another title: the 'Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch'. The picture is a militia painting: a group portrait of a division of the civic guard. Rembrandt depicted the group of militiamen in an original way. He did not paint them in neat row or sitting at their annual banquet, rather, he recorded a moment: a group of militiamen have just moved into action and are about to march off.

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