Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Allaert Cloeck and Lieutenant Lucas Jacobsz Rotgans
Also titled Officieren en andere schutters van wijk III in Amsterdam onder leiding van kapitein Allaert Cloeck en luitenant Lucas Jacobsz Rotgans
Thomas de Keyser (Amsterdam, ca. –1667)
1632
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 220 cm x width 351 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
Thomas de Keyser (1596/97 - 1667). The company of Captain Allaert Cloeck and Lieutenant Lucas Jacobsz Rotgans, Amsterdam, 1632. These civil guardsmen were positioned hierarchically: in the centre, on a platform, the captain, the colour-bearer, and the lieutenant. Around them we see three non-commissioned officers, who each have one foot on the platform. The regular riflemen arranged in the background are much smaller than the officers. Despite the fact that the riflemen to the left and right are somewhat crowded together, the composition is animated. The manner in which the three non-commissioned officers appear to be about to step onto the podium suggests a throng beginning to advance. This same solution - a crowd of people moving forward - was chosen by Rembrandt ten years later for his celebrated Night-watch. Painted for the Kloveniersdoelen (headquarters of the crossbowmen's civic guard), Amsterdam. On loan from the city of Amsterdam, 1885.
