The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- diameter 10.9 cm x thickness 0.6 cm
- Origin
- Amsterdam
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum
- Image provider
- rijksmuseum
- License
- Public Domain
- Credit
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Individual Portrait Visual · 98%
The obverse is dominated by a single left-facing profile portrait with a hat, long hair, mustache, and patterned collar.
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Text Visual · 99%
Raised lettering forms a circular inscription around the portrait, with additional inscriptions above and below the reverse scene.
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References to Art History Both · 98%
The catalog title identifies Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, and the reverse visibly reproduces its recognizable crowded scene of armed civic figures.
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Engaged with European Old Masters Both · 94%
The medal commemorates a work by the seventeenth-century Dutch Old Master Rembrandt and translates that painted composition into medallic relief.
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War and Military Visual · 88%
The reverse relief depicts numerous armed figures carrying long weapons in a compact, active formation.
Medium and Techniques
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Relief Visual · 99%
Both sides of the circular object use raised and recessed modeling for the portrait, lettering, border, and figural scene.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the medal to 1873.
Geographic Regions
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Dutch Art Metadata · 87%
The catalog gives Amsterdam as the place of origin, and the medal commemorates the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn.
Source & rights
Moses Cohen de Vries junior. The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.