File:La Ronda De Noche, Por Rembrandt Van Rijn.jpg
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Rembrandt: The Night Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburgh, known as the ‘Night Watch’. |
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | schutterstuk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 1642 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | height: 363 cm (11.9 ft) ; width: 437 cm (14.3 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current location |
room 12 |
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Accession number |
SK-C-5 |
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Place of creation | Amsterdam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
from 1642 until 1715Amsterdam from 1715 until 1808 : Stadhuis, Dam, Amsterdam 1808: lent to the Nationaal Museum, Dam, Amsterdam, by the city of Amsterdam 1817: transferred to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam |
: ‘Grote Sael’, Kloveniersdoelen, Nieuwe Doelenstraat, |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Exhibition history |
Rembrandt. Schilderijen bijeengebracht ter gelegenheid van de inhuldiging van Hare Majesteit Koningin Wilhelmina, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 8 September 1898–November 1898, cat. no. 52. |
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Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom center: Rembrandt f 1642
top center: Frans Banning Cocq, heer van purmerlant en Ilpendam, Capiteijn Willem van Ruijtenburch van Vlaerdingen, heer van Vlaerdingen, Lu[ij]tenant, Jan Visscher Cornelisen Vaendrich, Rombout Kemp Sergeant, Reijnier Engelen Sergeant, Barent Harmansen, Jan Adriaensen Keyser, Elbert Willemsen, Jan Clasen Leydeckers, Jan Ockersen, Jan Pietersen bronchorst, Harman Iacobsen wormskerck, Jacob Dircksen de Roy, Jan vander heede, Walich Schellingwou, Jan brugman, Claes van Cruysbergen, Paulus Schoonhoven |
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References |
Anonymous , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Officieren en andere schutters van wijk II in Amsterdam onder leiding van kapitein Frans Banninck Cocq (Cock) en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburgh, bekend als de ‘Nachtwacht’, 1642, height: 379.5 cm (12.4 ft); width: 453.5 cm (14.8 ft) . Anonymous , RKDimages, Art-work number 3063, as Het korporaalschap van kapitein Frans Banninck Cocq (Cock) en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburgh, 1642, height: 359 cm (11.7 ft); width: 438 cm (14.3 ft) Anonymous , Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20186110, as Die Kompagnie des Hauptmanns Frans Banning de Cocq (die Nachtwache), 1654/1662, height: 363 cm (11.9 ft); width: 437 cm (14.3 ft) Anonymous , Web Gallery of Art, as The Nightwatch, 1642, height: 363 cm (11.9 ft); width: 437 cm (14.3 ft) . |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-C-5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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