Misplaced Pages

#896103

32-420: Nachtwacht may refer to: De Nachtwacht , Dutch original title of The Night Watch , a 1642 painting by Rembrandt. Nachtwacht, official name of exoplanet HAT-P-6 b . Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nachtwacht . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

64-509: A bear. Since Lundens did not vary the handling of his genre scenes substantially over time, it is difficult to date these works. He painted family portraits, pendant portraits of couples and miniature portraits. He made copies after prominent masters including work of the Flemish genre painter Adriaen Brouwer who had worked a long time in the Dutch Republic. His most notable copy after

96-517: A cylinder. The rolled painting was stored for four years in a special safe that was built to protect many works of art in the caves of Maastricht, Netherlands. After the end of the war, the canvas was re-mounted, restored, and returned to the Rijksmuseum. On 11 December 2003, The Night Watch was moved to a temporary location, due to a major refurbishment of the Rijksmuseum. The painting was detached from its frame, wrapped in stain-free paper, put into

128-657: A dozen wedding parties. He further painted more unusual subjects, such as scenes with surgeons performing operations and views of the fire that destroyed the old town hall of Amsterdam on 7 July 1652 (one version in the Amsterdam Museum ). He painted a view of the Fair at the Heiligwegpoort in Amsterdam (at the Amsterdam Museum ), which shows, amongst the festive fair, a fight of dogs (so-called 'berebijters' (bear biters') against

160-399: A few drawings have been attributed to Lundens. He is known for portraits, genre scenes, a vanitas still life and copies of old masters. He was influenced by his brother-in-law Abraham van den Hecken and Jan Miense Molenaer , a pupil of Frans Hals. His genre scenes often represent peasants and persons from the lower as well as middle classes enjoying a good time at taverns. He painted about

192-546: A painter, he also earned a living as an innkeeper and wine merchant. His wine trading business went bankrupt in 1671 a year before France invaded the Dutch Republic. His last dated painting was made in 1675. He may have stopped painting due to the economic downturn caused by the French invasion. At the time of his death in 1686 he lived on the Singel near the Munt. About 150 paintings and

224-409: A village about 3 km northwest of the Amsterdam city centre. The couple had a number of children between 1646 and 1652. His daughter Anna married on 12 June 1677 in Amsterdam the ruby cutter Gillis Ouman. His daughter Ysabella posted banns on 13 November 1677 and married Theodorus van Rijn, a gemstone cutter. In 1667 Lundens became a 'poorter' (citizen) of Amsterdam. In addition to his activity as

256-588: A wooden frame which was put into two sleeves, driven on a cart to its new destination, hoisted, and brought into its new home through a special slit. While the refurbishment took place, The Night Watch could be viewed in its temporary location in the Philipsvleugel of the Rijksmuseum. When the refurbishment was finished in April 2013, the painting was returned to its original place in the Nachtwachtzaal ( Room of

288-569: A work of a contemporary master is his copy of The Night Watch , Rembrandt's famous painting which shows one of Amsterdam's Schutterijen (civic militia guards) led by its Captain Banning Cocq out of the gates of their Amsterdam militia headquarters (original on display at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam . It is believed that Captain Cocq commissioned Lunden to make the smaller replica, which is now in

320-641: Is thought the painting was completed in a lean-to in Rembrandt's garden as it is too large to fit into his Amsterdam studio. The Night Watch first hung in the Groote Zaal (Great Hall) of Amsterdam's Kloveniersdoelen . This structure currently houses the Doelen Hotel. In 1715, the painting was moved to the Amsterdam Town Hall, for which it was trimmed on all four sides. This was done, presumably, to fit

352-490: The Night Watch ). In 2021, the painting was exhibited from June to September with the trimmed-off sections recreated using convolutional neural networks , an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, based on the copy by Lundens. The recreation corrected for perspective (Lundens must have been sitting on the left side of the painting when he made his copy), and used colors and brush-strokes as used by Rembrandt. The trimming of

SECTION 10

#1732892006897

384-465: The collection of the National Gallery, London . Lundens' copy painted only a few years after the original, shows Rembrandt's work before 1715 when it was cut down on three sides and lost a few figures. One significant difference with the original work is the more elevated position of the pikeman Walich Schellingwou, which was possibly to compensate for the omission of the cartouche with the names of

416-602: The family Trip. Napoleon ordered it returned, but after the occupation ended in 1813, the painting again moved to the Trippenhuis , which now housed the Dutch Academy of Sciences . It remained there until it moved to the new Rijksmuseum when its building was finished in 1885. The painting was removed from the Rijksmuseum in September 1939, at the onset of World War II . The canvas was detached from its frame and rolled around

448-468: The figure of the young girl who carries a dead chicken on her belt, referencing the clauweniers (arquebusiers) and a type of drinking horn used at group banquets. The painting was commissioned around 1639 by Captain Banninck Cocq and seventeen members of his Kloveniers ( civic militia guards ). Eighteen names appear on a shield, painted circa 1715, in the center-right background, as the hired drummer

480-412: The fine nuances of the painting's complex color palette. The new illumination uses LED lights with a color temperature of 3,200  kelvin , similar to warm-white light sources such as tungsten halogen . It has a color rendering index of over 90, which makes it suitable for the illumination of artifacts such as The Night Watch . Using the new LED lighting, the museum saves 80% on energy and offers

512-463: The full original; the augmentations are a scientific, rather than an artist's, interpretation. For much of its existence, the painting was coated with a dark varnish, which gave the incorrect impression that it depicted a night scene, leading to the name by which it is now commonly known. On 13 January 1911, a jobless shoemaker and former Navy chef attempted to slash the painting with a shoemaker's knife protesting his inability to find work. However,

544-409: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nachtwacht&oldid=960186063 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Night Watch The Night Watch was completed in 1642 at

576-461: The newly built Kloveniersdoelen (Musketeers' Meeting Hall) in Amsterdam. Some have suggested that the occasion for Rembrandt's commission and the series of other commissions given to other artists was the visit of the French queen, Marie de' Medici , in 1638. Even though she was escaping from her exile from France ordered by her son Louis XIII , the queen's arrival was met with great pageantry. It

608-554: The painter Abraham van den Hecken the Younger , his brother-in-law who had married his sister Catharina when he was 13 years old. The stylistic similarities of his early works with those of van den Hecken seem to confirm this apprenticeship. He was first recorded as a painter in 1643. He posted banns of marriage on 27 April 1643 with Agniet Mathijs (or Angeniet Mathijsen), a native of Antwerp. The couple married on 10 May 1643 in Sloterdijk ,

640-430: The painting a safer environment because of the absence of UV radiation and heat. On 13 May 2020, the Rijksmuseum published a 44.8 gigapixel image of The Night Watch made from 528 different still photographs. "The 24 rows of 22 pictures were stitched together digitally with the aid of neural networks", the museum said. It was primarily created for scientists to view the painting remotely, and to track how ageing affects

672-444: The painting between two columns and was a common practice before the 19th century. This alteration resulted in the loss of two characters on the left side of the painting, the top of the arch, the balustrade, and the edge of the step. The missing portions have not been found; Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum, has some hope that possibly at least the left-hand side might not have been destroyed as it contained three figures, and at

SECTION 20

#1732892006897

704-506: The painting put the lieutenants in the center, but the original placed them off-center, marching towards an empty space now reinstated, creating a dynamic of the troops marching towards the left of the painting. The cutdown painting by Rembrandt with the AI recreation of the missing portions attached was placed on exhibition for three months. The augmented painting will not be on permanent display so as not to "trick" viewers into thinking they were seeing

736-401: The painting. The photograph can be viewed online and zoomed into to see fine detail. Gerrit Lundens Gerrit Lundens (1622 – 1686), was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits and a single vanitas painting. He also made copies after prominent masters, including Rembrandt. He further operated an inn and was active as a wine merchant. He was born in Amsterdam as

768-519: The peak of the Dutch Golden Age . It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash ) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash). Behind them, the company's colors are carried by the ensign, Jan Visscher Cornelissen. Rembrandt incorporated the traditional emblem of the arquebusiers in

800-400: The persons depicted. It has been suggested that about 10 of his works made around the time he is presumed to have copied The Night Watch were influenced by Rembrandt's composition. His composition The fairgoers (private collection, c. 1643-49) has even been described as plagiarism of The Night Watch in its organisation of the figures in a chaotic crowd to create the illusion of movement,

832-545: The son of Berend (or Barend) Lunden, a laundry bleacher, and Catharyne (or Catharina) van Sichem, daughter of the engraver Christoffel van Sichem the Elder . His father's family was originally from Antwerp and had moved to Middelburg and c. 1590 to Amsterdam. His aunt Anneke (or Annken) Lunden (born in Antwerp in 1571) married in 1620 Christoffel van Sichem the Younger , who was presumably her brother-in-law. He may have trained with

864-487: The thick coating of varnish protected the painting from any damage at that time. The varnish was removed only in the 1940s. On 14 September 1975, the work was attacked with a bread knife by an unemployed school teacher, Wilhelmus de Rijk, resulting in several large zig-zagged slashes up to 30 cm long. De Rijk, who suffered from mental illness , claimed he "did it for the Lord" and that he "was ordered to do it". The painting

896-706: The time the painting was trimmed Rembrandt paintings were already expensive. A 17th-century copy of the painting by Gerrit Lundens (1622–1683), on loan from the National Gallery, London , to the Rijkmuseum, shows the original composition. When Napoleon occupied the Netherlands, the Town Hall became the Palace on the Dam and the magistrates moved the painting to the Trippenhuis of

928-488: The varnish layer of the painting, and it was fully restored. In July 2019, a long and complex restoration effort began. The restoration took place in public, in a specially made glass enclosure built and placed in the Rijksmuseum and was livestreamed . The plan was to move the 337 kg painting into the enclosure starting when the museum closed for the day on 9 July, then to map the painting "layer by layer and pigment by pigment", and plan conservation work according to what

960-412: Was added to the painting for free. A total of 34 characters appear in the painting. Rembrandt was paid 1,600 guilders for the painting (each person paid one hundred), a large sum at the time. This was one of a series of seven similar paintings of the militiamen ( Dutch : Schuttersstuk ) commissioned during that time from various artists. The painting was commissioned to hang in the banquet hall of

992-408: Was found. Taco Dibbits , the Rijksmuseum's general director, said that despite working there for 17 years, he had never seen the top of the painting; "We know so little on how [Rembrandt] worked on making The Night Watch ." On 26 October 2011, the Rijksmuseum unveiled new, sustainable LED lighting for The Night Watch . With new technology, it is the first time LED lighting has been able to render

Nachtwacht - Misplaced Pages Continue

1024-415: Was successfully restored after four years, but some evidence of the damage is still visible up close. De Rijk died by suicide in April 1976, before he could have been charged. On 6 April 1990, an escaped psychiatric patient sprayed acid onto the painting with a concealed pump bottle. Security guards intervened, stopping the man and quickly spraying water onto the canvas. Ultimately, the acid only penetrated

#896103