The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild, Known as ‘The Syndics’
Also titled De waardijns van het Amsterdamse lakenbereidersgilde, bekend als ‘De Staalmeesters’
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1662
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 191.5 cm x width 279 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 museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
After suffering financial difficulties in the 1650s, Rembrandt moved to a rental house on the Rozengracht. The Amsterdam élite no longer knocked on his door as often as they had done before. He nevertheless remained popular: this important guild commissioned him to paint a group portrait. Rembrandt produced a lively scene by having the wardens look up from their work as if interrupted by our arrival.
