canvas was taken down and removed from its frame in the Netherlands’ national museum today for the first time since 1975, as part of a multi-year restoration project.
Completed in 1642, the painting, which measures 3.8 x 4.5 metres, and weighs 337 kilogrammes, portrays the captain of an Amsterdam city militia ordering his men into action.is flat on its belly,” Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits told newspaper Nederlands Dagblad.Over a period of three months The Night Watch will be put on to a new aluminium frame, which will remove some warping of the canvas.
The restoration is being done behind glass walls in the gallery where the painting is normally on display — the “Gallery of Honour” which shows works by Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, known as the country’s Golden Age. As part of the restoration project, the painting has recently been photographed to create an ultra high-resolution digital version — which the museum says is the most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. The image is available to the public on the Rijksmuseum’s
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