Historians have sniffed out a similar canine in an Adriaen van de Venne drawing. "Operation Night Watch" looks at the dog in Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch. Photo: by Kelly Schenk, ...

When Rembrandt van Rijn unveiled The Night Watch in 1642, it was unlike anything audiences had seen before. While typical military portraits showed men in stationary poses, the Dutch artist’s painting ...

After five years of intensive scientific analysis, The Night Watch by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is finally ready to undergo a landmark restoration. The multi-year Operation Night Watch project ...

The second phase of the Rijksmuseum’s Operation Night Watch, the largest research and restoration project ever undertaken for Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece—The Night Watch—is in motion. On Tuesday, a ...

Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a "golden" paint. Using ...

The 17th century drawing by Dutch artist Adriaen van de Venne which inspired Rembrandt when painting a dog in the "Night Watch," is shown on an easel at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ...

Rembrandt van Rijn completed The Night Watch, a group portrait of Amsterdam's local militia, in 1642. Rijksmuseum The characteristic golden hue in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch stems from an unlikely ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam said on Tuesday that it had finally sniffed out a sketch that inspired the dog in Rembrandt's 17th century painting The Night Watch.

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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced last week that the dog depicted in the lower righthand corner of Rembrandt van Rijn's Night Watch (1642) was based on a popular drawing from the 17th-century.