The Cat’s Night Watch
Some weird people think that cats use to falsify Rembrandt’s masterpieces. This is horrible misunderstanding! We, cats every night watch the museums of the world and struggle against rodents to preserve masterpieces for you, humans:
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, The Night Watch (Company of Frans Banning Cocq and the Cat)
Even more, we cats are used to return the original look to the masterpieces. Do you know that the Night Watch is the Day Watch in the matter of fact? The painting was covered by the dust during centuries and lost it’s original colours. The light seen at the painting is a day light, and one can notice that according to the position of the sun it is about 14 o’clock.
Rembrandt, The Night Watch, detail
The X-ray examination of the painting shows that Rembrandt worked a lot on the lieutenant figure, the brigtest spot of the image. Now one can see his original face:
Rembrandt, The Night Watch, faces
The commonly known version of the painting is now at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam:
Rembrandt, The Night Watch, commonly known version
Today, 30 of Aplil is the Queen’s Day at the Netherlands. Congratulaions!
