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Summary
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| Title |
The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the ‘Night Watch’. |
| Date |
1642 |
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
| Dimensions |
Height: 379.5 cm (149.4 in). Width: 453.5 cm (178.5 in). |
| Current location |
( Inventory) Rijksmuseum Amsterdam   |
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| Native name |
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam |
| Location |
Amsterdam |
| Coordinates |
52° 21′ 35.89″ N, 4° 53′ 7.17″ E   |
| Established |
1800 |
| Website |
rijksmuseum.nl |
| Authority control |
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| room 12 |
| Accession number |
SK-C-5 |
| Object history |
from 1642 until 1715: ‘Grote Sael’, Kloveniersdoelen, Nieuwe Doelenstraat, Amsterdam
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
1885: transferred to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Stadhouderskade 42, Amsterdam
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| Exhibition history |
De Rembrandt Tentoonstelling te Amsterdam, September 1898–November 1898, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Cat.no. 52.
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| Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom centre: Rembrandt f 1642
top centre: 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 en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburch, bekend als de ‘Nachtwacht’, 1642, 379.5 × 453.5 cm (149.4 × 178.5 in).
Anonymous, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Webspecial, as The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the ‘Night Watch’, 1642, 363 × 437 cm (142.9 × 172 in).
Anonymous, RKDimages, Art-work number 3063, as Het korporaalschap van kapitein Frans Banning Cocq en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburch, 1642, 359 × 438 cm (141.3 × 172.4 in).
Anonymous, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, Object 20186110, as Die Kompagnie des Hauptmanns Frans Banning de Cocq (die Nachtwache), 1654/1662, 363 × 437 cm (142.9 × 172 in).
Anonymous, Web Gallery of Art, as The Nightwatch, 1642, 363 × 437 cm (142.9 × 172 in).
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| Source/Photographer |
www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info |
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