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Rembrandt

Civic guardsmen of Amsterdam under command of Banninck Cocq, 1642 gedateerd
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv./cat.nr. SK-C-5
Bredius 1935, no. 410
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Illustration number 0001526322
Dimensions: 8841x7217 pixels
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Illustration number 0000003173
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Object information
Object category
painting
Physical connection
Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

part of a decoration scheme

These paintings, including the Night Watch, hung in the great upper hall of the headquarters of the arquebusiers’ civic guard , the Kloveniersdoelen (Dudok van Heel 2009, p. 5).
Support/medium
canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions
rectangle (landscape format) 363 x 438 cm
379.5 × 453.5 cm according to website museum (25/6/2020). When the painting was transferred from the Kloveniersdoelen to the Townhall it was cut down severely on the righthand side to fit into the Small Council of War Chamber. On the other sides smaller strips were also trimmed (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-, vol. 3 (1989), no. A 146).
Signature/inscription
Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work
  • signed and dated bottom left of the middle: Rembrandt f. 1642
  • inscription topside, right of the middle: Frans Banning Cocq/ heer van Purmerlant en Ilpendam/ Capiteijn/ Willem van Ruijtenburch van Vlaerding/ heer van Vlaerdingen' Leutenant/ Jan Visscher Cornelisen' vaendrich/ Rombout Kemp' Sergeant/ Reijnier Engelen' Sergeant/ Barent Harmansen/ Jan Adriaensen Keyser/ Elbert Willemsen/ Jan Clasen Leijdeckers/ Jan Ockersen/ Jan Pietersen bronchorst/ Harman Iacobsen wormskerck/ Jacob Dircksen de Roy/ Jan vander heede/ walich Schellingwou/ Jan brugman/ Claes van Cruysbergen/ Paulus Schoonhoven (Haverkamp-Begemann 1982, p. 12-13)
    inscription on the cartouche in the background; the cartouche was probably added later
Current attribution
Rembrandt
Date
Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.
dated 1642 (1642)
Represented
IB number
Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.
23022
Identification based on
for the identifications see Dudok van Heel 2009 A , p. 46-66
Artistically related
Artistically related to other work
Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.
Provenance
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Visual documentation
Technical documentation
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External links
Website museum
Creation date: 1996-08-19; Last modified date: 2022-09-19

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