Vintage biscuit tin Rembrandt De Nachtwacht - The Night Watch

Vintage biscuit tin Rembrandt De Nachtwacht - The Night Watch. 

Silver-colored tin with an embossed image of The Night Watch.

Description
Stunning tin with a rectangular shape with a hinged lid with hanging hinges. The decoration of this tin is silver and black colored. The lid is decorated with an embossed image of The Night Watch with a frame. Rank motifs on the sides. On the front and at the back in decorative letters with the name "Rembrandt".

This tin stands on four semicircular spherical feet which are embossed on the bottom of the tin.

Condition
This tin is in a neat vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

• Height: 7 cm.
• Length: 31 cm.
• Width: 23 cm.

Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best-known painting in its collection. The Night Watch is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings.

The painting is famous for three things: its colossal size (363 cm × 437 cm (11.91 ft × 14.34 ft)), the dramatic use of light and shadow (tenebrism) and the perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military group portrait. The painting was completed in 1642, at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Frans Banning Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash). With effective use of sunlight and shade, Rembrandt leads the eye to the three most important characters among the crowd: the two gentlemen in the center (from whom the painting gets its original title), and the woman in the center-left background carrying a chicken. Behind them, the company's colours are carried by the ensign, Jan Visscher Cornelissen. The figures are almost life-size.

Rembrandt has displayed the traditional emblem of the arquebusiers in a natural way, with the woman in the background carrying the main symbols. She is a kind of mascot herself; the claws of a dead chicken on her belt represent the clauweniers (arquebusiers), the pistol behind the chicken represents clover and she is holding the militia's goblet. The man in front of her is wearing a helmet with an oak leaf, a traditional motif of the arquebusiers. The dead chicken is also meant to represent a defeated adversary. The colour yellow is often associated with victory.

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