Rembrandt van Rijn
The Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq
and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out
aka The Nightwatch
1642
A part of this project that is for the most part invisible to the viewer is the selection of an image of the original painting. In this painting particularly, though, the variables in selecting the representation were more dramatic.
The Night Watch is a misnomer, because dirt and egg varnish made the painting appear darker, a night scene, until it was later restored by historians.
Also, the painting was cropped at some point in it's history.
I chose the cropped version because that is what you can see today in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The dark version was chosen because "The Night Watch" is a far better known title than the mouthful above.
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