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Painting

The Night Watch

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Amsterdam civic guard, caught mid-step. Cut down in the 18th century and still the Rijksmuseum's great machine.

Artist
Rembrandt van Rijn
Date
1642
Medium
Oil on canvas
Movement
Dutch Golden Age
Origin
Netherlands
Where it is
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Nearby on the shelf

c. 1665Painting

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer

Dutch Golden Age/Oil on canvas

Public collection

Steady