Rembrandt van Rijn's 'The Night Watch' (Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, 1642) is the most famous of all Dutch Golden Age paintings — a monumental 3.6 × 4.4 m group portrait that breaks with the static rows of contemporary civic-guard paintings to show the militia bursting into motion under dramatic tenebrist light. Trimmed in the 18th century and the subject of continuous restoration campaigns, it has hung in its own specially designed gallery at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam since 1885.

Exhibition Venue

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands