The Nightwatch
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The Nightwatch (The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the Night Watch) is an oil painting by Rembrandt. It was painted in 1642. It measures 379.5 cm x 453.5 cm (149.4 in x 178.5 in). It hangs in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.