Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Allaert Cloeck and Lieutenant Lucas Jacobsz Rotgans, Thomas de Keyser, 1632

Identification

Title(s)

Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Allaert Cloeck and Lieutenant Lucas Jacobsz Rotgans

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-C-381

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, upper left, on the archway, in ligated monogram: ‘TDK.1632’

Description

Officieren en andere schutters van wijk III in Amsterdam onder leiding van kapitein Allaert Cloeck en luitenant Lucas Jacobsz Rotgans. De andere schutters zijn: Claes Coeck Nanningsz (met vaandel), Jan Vogelensang, Gerrit Pietersz Schagen, Michiel Colijn, Hans Walschaert, Jan Kuysten, Adolf Fortenbeeck, Aris Hendrick Hallewat, Hendrick Colijn, Hademan van Laer, Dirck Pietersz Pers, Frederick Schulenborch, Thomas Jacobsz Hoingh en Julius van den Bergen.

Creation

Artist

painter: Thomas de Keyser (signed by artist)

Dating

1632

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 220 cm × width 351 cm

Subject

What

warfare; military affairs (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia)

Where

Kloveniersdoelen

Who

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 2-Oct-1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Commissioned by or for the sitters for the Kloveniersdoelen (headquarters of the arquebusiers’ civic guard); first mentioned in the Kloveniersdoelen, 1653 (‘Voor in t’ voorhuijs, boven de trap, gaende na de grootte Sael Alb. Cloeck Schepen. Capn, Lucas Jacobsz. Rotgans Lut., gedaen bij … Keijser.’);{Schaep 1653, p. 136, no. 8.} transferred to the Great Council of War Chamber in the town hall by 1758;{Van Dyk 1758, pp. 34-35, no. 22.} on loan to the museum from the City of Amsterdam since 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Public faces and private identities in seventeenth-century Holland : portraiture and the production of community, Ann Jensen Adams, p. 218, fig. 61
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 233-236
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 319
Marten en Oopjen : twee monumentale portretten van Rembrandt, afb. 24
Marten and Oopjen : two monumental portraits by Rembrandt, fig. 24
The Night Watch and the Entry of Marie de'Medici : a new interpretation of the original place and significance of the painting, S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, p. 16, afb. 13

Persistent URL

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