A groep of Guardsmen
Also titled Een groep schutters
Dirck Jacobsz (ca. –1567)
1529
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 119.3 cm (centre panel) x width 174.4 cm (centre panel) x height 119.7 cm (left wing) x width 75.9 cm (left wing) x height 120.4 cm (right wing) x width 76.1 cm (right wing)
- 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
In the earliest known Dutch militia portrait, no fewer than seventeen men gaze at us with pride, including, at the upper right, the painter himself holding a paintbrush. The man fourth from the right in the bottom row is probably the captain. The militias were responsible for urban order, public safety and the defence of the city. This group portrait is a textbook example of bourgeois self-awareness and confidence, and typically Dutch.
