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Copy of The Night Watch
Also titled Kopie naar De Nachtwacht
Gerrit Lundens (Amsterdam, 1622–1686)
c. 1642 - c. 1655
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 66.5 cm x width 85.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the National Gallery, London. Bequeathed by the Revd Thomas Halford, 1857
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This 17th-century copy of the Night Watch reveals that the composition was originally larger. The painting was cut down on three sides – above all, on the left – when it was moved in 1715 from the large hall of the Kloveniersdoelen to the Amsterdam Town Hall. It had to fit in between two doors in its new location. The strips of canvas that were cut away were not preserved.
