The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw
Also titled Het korporaalschap van kapitein Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans en luitenant Pauw
Cornelis Ketel (Gouda, 1548–1616)
1588
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 208 cm x width 410 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Thirteen self-assured officers of the Amsterdam militia, the city’s armed civic guard, are portrayed here. From 1580, at the initiative of William of Orange, the old militia guilds were refashioned into civic guards organized along military lines. The officers were recruited from the upper levels of society. The dark muzzled dog at right contrasts comically with the jaunty little lapdog at centre jumping up on its owner’s legs.
