The Night Watch De Nachtwacht by Rembrandt van Rijn Old Masters Fine Art Reproduction
by Rolando Burbon
Title
The Night Watch De Nachtwacht by Rembrandt van Rijn Old Masters Fine Art Reproduction
Artist
Rolando Burbon
Medium
Painting - Digital Art Reproductions
Description
La Ronda de Noche (The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburgh, known as the "Night Watch") c1642 by Dutch Painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669); also an accomplished draughtsman and printmaker, and in the history of art is considered to be one of the worlds greatest visual artist.
De Nachtwacht was completed in 1642 at the height of the Dutch Golden Age; and depicts Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash)and the woman that we see in the background carrying a chicken are the central chracters of the painting.
In the painting Rembrandt has displayed the traditional emblem of the Arquebusiers; with the woman in the background carrying the main symbols. She can be regarded as sort of a mascot and the claws of the dead chicken (represents a defeated adversary) on her velt represent the clauweniers (arquebusiers - a type of long gun of the 15th century; with the term being applied to other firearms from the 15th to the 17th century); while the pistol behind the chicken represents clover; she is also holding the militia's goblet.
The man in the front is wearing an oak leaf adorned helmet, which is a traditional motif of the arquebusiers; and the color yellow is often associated with victory.
The painting is also shorter than it was originally painted. In 1715 the painting was moved to the Amsterdam Town Hall and as a common practice of the time, it was trimmed on all four sides so that it could fit between two columns; which resulted in the lost of two characters on the left side of the painting, the top of the arch, the balustrade, and the edge of the step.
A 17th century copy of the painting by Gerrit Lundens (1622 - 1683) shows what the original artwork looked like.
The individuals that comprised the Night Watch are: Captain Frans Banning Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash), heer van purmerlant en Ilpendam, Capiteijn Willem van Ruijtenburch van Vlaerdingen (his lieutenant dressed in yellow, with a white sash), heer van Vlaerdingen, Luijtenant, Jan Visscher Cornelisen Vaendrich, Rombout Kemp Sergeant, Reijnier Engelen Sergeant, Barent Harmansen, Jan Adriaensen Keyser, Elbert Willemsen, Musketier Jan Clasen Leydeckers (behind the Lieutenant in Yellow blowing into the powder pan of a musket which once belonged to Jan Snedeker), Jan Ockersen, Jan Pietersen bronchorst, Harman Iacobsen wormskerck, Jacob Dirksen de Roy (the Governor on far left of the cut off section of the painting), Jan vander heede, Walich Schellingwou, Jan brugman, Claes van Cruysbergen, and Paulus Schoonhoven.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
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