The Night Watch
1642 painting by Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum
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Summary
The Night Watch is a painting[1]. It ranks in the top 0.45% of painting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,644 views/month, #27 of 5,957).[2]
Key Facts
- Creator: Rembrandt[3]
- Country: Netherlands[4]
- Owned by: Amsterdam[5]
- Movement: Dutch Golden Age painting[6]
- Genre: schutterstuk[7], corporation piece[8]
- Depicts: Frans Banning Cocq[9], Willem van Ruytenburch[10], man[11], girl[12], Schutterij[13], arquebusier[14], arquebus[15], night[16], hat[17]
- Made from material: canvas[18], oil paint[19]
- Collection: Rijksmuseum[20], Amsterdam Museum[21]
- Inventory number: SK-C-5[22], SA 7392[23]
- Location: Royal Palace of Amsterdam[24], Trippenhuis[25], Nightwatch hall[26]
- Commons category: The Night Watch by Rembrandt[27]
- Country of origin: Netherlands[28]
- Catalog code: 139[29], 52[30], 265[31], 2016[32], 926[33], 410[34], 32[35], 50[36], 239[37], 246[38], 71[39], 254[40], 190[41]
- Inception: January 1, 1642[42]
- Exhibition history: Rembrandt. Schilderijen bijeengebracht ter gelegenheid van de inhuldiging van Hare Majesteit Koningin Wilhelmina, 8 September-31 October 1898[43]
- Significant event: Operation Night Watch[44]
- Main subject: The civic militia lead by Frans Banninck Cocq[45]
- Described at URL: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/De-Nachtwacht--3137deb45cd7765f9a76084a16c99544[46], https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200107928[47], https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-C-5[48]
- Location of creation: Amsterdam[49]
- Depicts Iconclass notation: 45(+26)[50], 45C1[51], 34B11[52], 48C7341[53], 31D11222[54], 45D12[55], 61B(+55)[56], 23R14[57], 45B[58], 45B(+26):61B2(...)13[59], 45D312[60]
- Described by source: Catalog of the paintings on show at the Rijksmuseum in 1956[61], 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die[62]
- Official name: Schutters van wijk II onder leiding van kapitein Frans Banninck Cocq, bekend als de ‘Nachtwacht’[63]
- Title: Officieren en andere schutters van wijk II in Amsterdam, onder leiding van kapitein Frans Banninck Cocq en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburch, bekend als ‘De Nachtwacht’[64], Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, Known as the ‘Night Watch’[65], The Night Watch[66]
- Different from: Watchman[67]
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Cultural Impact
Things named for The Night Watch include HAT-P-6 b[68], an exoplanet[69].
Why It Matters
The Night Watch has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[70] It is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[71]
Entities named for it include HAT-P-6 b[68], an exoplanet[69].