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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands) SK-C-5en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1642 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorRembrandt van Rijnen_US
dc.date1642en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-23T18:13:49Z
dc.date.available2016-08-23T18:13:49Z
dc.date.issued1642en_US
dc.identifier267998en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3424en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/184312
dc.descriptionDetail, Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (left) gestures to Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch (right) with men behind; Rembrandt’s largest, most famous canvas was made for the Arquebusiers guild hall. This was one of several halls of Amsterdam’s civic guard, the city’s militia and police. Rembrandt was the first to paint figures in a group portrait actually doing something. The captain, dressed in black, is telling his lieutenant to start the company marching. The guardsmen are getting into formation. Rembrandt used the light to focus on particular details, like the captain’s gesturing hand and the young girl in the foreground. She was the company mascot. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 6/22/2015)en_US
dc.format.mediumoil paint on canvasen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectmilitary or waren_US
dc.subjectportraiten_US
dc.subjectNetherlands-- History-- Eighty Years’ War, 1568-1648en_US
dc.subjectcivic militiasen_US
dc.subjectSeventeenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titleNight Watchen_US
dc.title.alternativeMilitia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocqen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode7A1-REMB-NW-A06en_US
vra.culturalContextDutchen_US
vra.techniqueoil painting (technique)en_US
vra.worktypepainting (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayRembrandt van Rijn (Dutch painter, 1606-1669)en_US


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