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The restorations of Rembrandt’s ‘Night watch’
02/2016 | 1355 | 158
Pages: 117-128
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Filedt Kok, Jan Piet (Filedt Kok, Jan Piet; Kok, J. P. Filedt)
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van Duijn, Esther (van Duijn, Esther)
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43. The officers and civic guards of District II of Amsterdam under the command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the Night watch, by Rembrandt. 1642 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on loan from the City of Amsterdam)
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44. Unrolling of the Night watch in the courtyard of the Rijksmuseum in June 1945
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45. Inspection of the Night watch after its unrolling and restretching in June 1945. The canvas is visibly deformed in the upper half and the vertical seams of the old lining canvas are evident
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46. The relining treatment of 1945; the painting is placed face down during the removal of Hopman's relining canvas
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47. The relining treatment of 1945; Hopman's relining mixture is removed by Jenner
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48. Visitors in front of Rembrandt's 'Night watch' at the Trippenhuis, by August Jernberg. 1885 (Konstmuseum, Malmö). Although the painting may have had a yellow varnish of its own, the effect of the yellow tone of the Night watch against the light and coloured costumes is striking
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49. H.H. Mertens removing the varnish from the Night watch in 1946-47 in the Night watch extension (Photograph by Willem van de Poll; © National Archive)
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50. Detail of the Night watch, showing the man dressed in red loading his musket and the two little girls, after removal of the varnish (From T. Koot: De Nachtwacht in nieuwen luister, Amsterdam 1947)
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51. Detail of the Night watch, showing Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, during removal of the varnish (From T. Koot: De Nachtwacht in nieuwen luister, Amsterdam 1947)
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52. X-radiograph of 1946 showing a detail of the drummer's head in the Night watch (From A. van Schendel and H.H. Mertens: 'De restauraties van Rembrandt's Nachtwacht', Oud Holland 62 (1947), p.45)
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53. Infra-red photograph of 1946 showing a detail of the cartouche in the Night watch (From A. van Schendel and H.H. Mertens: 'De restauraties van Rembrandt's Nachtwacht', Oud Holland 62 (1947), p.26)
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54. Van Schendel and Kuiper inspecting the damage caused by a knife attack in September 1975; some cuts went through the paint layer, canvas and lining canvas (Photograph by Rob Bogaerts / Anefo; © National Archive)
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55. Damage caused by an acid attack in 1990; only the varnish layers were affected
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56. Visitors to the Rijksmuseum inspect the progress on the treatment of the Night watch through windows into the temporary studio, 1975-76
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57. L. Kuiper and R. Hesterman removing the varnish in 1976 on the bridge in front of the Night watch that hung suspended between rails and ropes with contra weights
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58. Stills from the documentary Night watch under the knife showing Kuiper removing varnish in 1975-76
Editorial
The (New) Hollstein catalogues
10/2014 | 1339 | 156
Pages: 639
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