The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642 painting Officers and other shooters of Wijk II in Amsterdam under the leadership of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known since the end of the 18th century as "De Nachtwacht". Schutters of the Kloveniersdoelstoel from a gate to outside. A shield applied next to the gate are the names of the people depicted: Frans Banning Cocq, lord of Purmerlant and Ilpendam, Capiteijn Willem van Ruijtenburch van Vlaerdingen, lord of Vlaerdingen, Lu [ij] tenant, Jan Visscher Cornelisen Vaendrich, Rombout Kemp Sergeantant , Reijnier E
The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642 painting Officers and other shooters of Wijk II in Amsterdam under the leadership of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known since the end of the 18th century as "De Nachtwacht". Schutters of the Kloveniersdoelstoel from a gate to outside. A shield applied next to the gate are the names of the people depicted: Frans Banning Cocq, lord of Purmerlant and Ilpendam, Capiteijn Willem van Ruijtenburch van Vlaerdingen, lord of Vlaerdingen, Lu [ij] tenant, Jan Visscher Cornelisen Vaendrich, Rombout Kemp Sergeantant , Reijnier Engelen Sergeant, Barent Harmansen, Jan Adriaensen Keyser, Elbert Willemsen, Jan Clasen Leydeckers, Jan Octersen, Jan Pietersen Bronchorst, Harman Iacobsen Wormskerck, Jacob Dircksen de Roy, Jan Vander Heede, Walich Schellingwou, Claes van Cruysbergen, Paulus Schoonhoven. The shooters are armed with, among other things, peaks, muskettes and hellbaarden. On the right the tamboer with a large drum. Between the soldiers on the left is a girl with a dead chicken around her waist, a barking dog on the right. At the top left the Vaandrig with the outstretched banner. Amsterdam canvas. oil paint (paint) warfare; military affairs (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia). weapons. drum (musical instrument). girl (child between toddler and youth). (military) standard-bearer. dog Amsterdam
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