Description: 2021 Pieces of the Past - #230 - "The Night Watch" - Rembrandt 1642 - 1/1. The Night Watch, painting by Rembrandt van Rijn completed in 1642.The Night Watch, formally known as Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (the painting’s simpler, widely known title was erroneously given to it due to its thick, dark yellow varnish), is ostensibly a genre scene out of the 17th-century Dutch Baroque. Painted in 1642, at the height of Rembrandt’s career, this colossal painting is a commissioned group portrait of a militia company. Such portraits traditionally depicted their members in neat rows or at a banquet. Rembrandt’s version, however, makes the prosaic subject into a dynamic work of art; with its masterful chiaroscuro and dramatic action, the conventions of traditional portraiture are overturned. The Night Watch depicts the captain of the guard as he leads his yellow-clad lieutenant as they round up the uniformed ranks. Only 18 of the 34 characters in the scene are portraits of actual people; the remaining figures are symbolic, such as the young girl in yellow, who is the allegorical emblem of the guard. The illusionism and the sense of theatricality and movement in the painting are enforced by the choreography of gestures, glances, muskets, and banners and by the building up of pigment in the foreground that flattens as the perspective recedes. The painting was originally even larger, but it was cut down in the 18th century. By mixing charged symbolism and reality as well as action and allegory, Rembrandt takes a subject steeped in tradition and creates a masterpiece transcending time and genre.
Price: 289 USD
Location: Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-09-19T20:46:32.000Z
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Type: Non-Sport Trading Card
Set: Pieces of the Past
Character: Rembrandt
Manufacturer: Super Products, Inc.
Year Manufactured: 2021
Franchise: Rembrandt
