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ACCESSION: SK-A-5016
ARTIST: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)
WORK: The Night Watch, 1642
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas · 379.5 × 453.5 cm
ACCESS: Public Domain / CC0 1.0
SCAN: Available in 717-gigapixel scan

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01 · SUBJECTPortraiture & TroniesIndividual likeness, group portraits & anonymous tronies. 02 · GENREStill Life & PronkBanquets, accumulations & luxuriant flower pieces. 03 · SOCIETYGenre & Civic LifeEveryday scenes, festivals & civic guard companies. 04 · REGIONLandscape & MarineRiver views, wetlands, dunes & Italianate light.

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SK-A-5016

The Night Watch

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1642–1642

A civic-guard group portrait of unprecedented scale and theatricality, in which Rembrandt animated the static tableau...

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer · 1632–1675

A tronie — a study of an anonymous type rather than a portrait. The luminous pearl is constructed from only two touches...

SK-A-3245

Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop

Rachel Ruysch · 1664–1750

A leading still-life specialist and court painter to the Elector Palatine, Ruysch composes botanically impossible bouquets...

A reading room for the Dutch & Flemish Golden Age.