Rembrandt

The Night Watch



Rembrandt - The Night Watch



Rembrandt
The Night Watch
1642
363 x 437 cm.
Oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Civic Guards

Related works


Copy showing the original size


Gerrit Lundens - Copy after The Nightwatch
Gerrit Lundens
Copy after The Nightwatch
1642/49


Study?:

Heijmen Dullaert - Studies of an Officer, an Oriental, and a Man in High Cap
Heijmen Dullaert
Studies of an Officer, an Oriental, and a Man in High Cap
c. 1641-42

Literature


Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 926
Bredius 410
Bauch 537 info
Gerson 239
Bredius/Gerson 410 info
Tümpel 254
Corpus III, A 146
Corpus VI 190 info
Manuth 265
Giltaij 445

Collection catalogues
Pieter J.J. van Thiel, C.J. de Bruyn Kops, Jola Cleveringa, Wouter Kloek, Annemarie Vels Heijn, All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Maarssen, 1976, pp. 469-470 info
Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Reinier Baarsen, Bart Cornelis, Wouter Kloek, Frits Scholten, Netherlandish art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2001, nr. 44

Monographic literature
Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching, Rotterdam, 2006
Marc Pos, Het geheim van De Nachtwacht, Amsterdam, 2022

Literature
Christopher Brown, Jan Kelch & Pieter van Thiel, Rembrandt, New Haven; London, 1991, fig. 58
Duncan Bull (red.), Rembrandt Caravaggio, Zwolle - Amsterdam, 2006, fig. 2
Thijs Weststeijn, The visible world, Amsterdam, 2008, fig. 92
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt in nieuw licht, Amsterdam, 2009, fig. 158, 159
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 152
Thijs Weststeijn (eds.), The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678), Amsterdam, 2013, fig. 31
David de Witt, Leonore van Sloten, Jaap van der Veen, Rembrandt's Late Pupils, Amsterdam, 2015, fig. 2.4
Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt's rivals, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2015, fig. IIA-118
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2016], fig. 121 (digital reconstruction), 238 (digital reconstruction)
Erna E. Kok, Netwerkende kunstenaars in de Gouden Eeuw, Hilversum, 2016, fig. 42
Rembrandt intime, Bruxelles, 2016, fig. 7
Larry Silver, Rembrandt's Holland, London, 2018, fig. 11
Jan Six, Rembrandt's Portrait of a Young Gentleman, Amsterdam, 2018, fig. 1
Jennifer Scott and Helen Hillzard, Rembrandt's Light, London, 2019, fig. 30
Claus Volkenandt, Rembrandt, Darmstadt, 2019, fig. 1
Norbert Middelkoop (ed.), Rembrandt and Amsterdam portraiture, 1590-1670, Madrid, 2020, fig. 54
Stephanie S. Dickey and Jochen Sander (eds.), Rembrandt in Amsterdam, New Haven, 2021, fig. 1.9
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 26
Sabine Pénot (ed.), Rembrandt Hoogstraten, Veurne, 2024, figs. 45, 49 (detail), 73, 95 (detail), 96 (detail)



External links


RKD 3063
Rijksmuseum Accession number SK-C-5

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