The Cat’s Night Watch
Some weird people think that cats used to falsify Rembrandt’s masterpieces invading museums and appearing in famous paintings. This is a 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 recover the original look of the masterpieces. Do you know that the Night Watch is the Day Watch in the matter of fact? The painting was covered by dust for centuries and lost its original colors. The light seen in the painting is daylight, and one can notice that according to the position of the sun, it is about 14 o’clock.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, The Night Watch (Company of Frans Banning Cocq and the Cat), detail
The X-ray examination of the painting shows that Rembrandt worked a lot on the lieutenant figure, the brightest spot of the image. Now one can see his original face:
Rembrandt, The Night Watch with the Cat, close up
The commonly known version of the painting is now at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam:
Rembrandt, The Night Watch, commonly known version
Now We revealed the historical truth on the role of cats in guarding the artworks in museums
Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat
BUY THIS ARTWORK as a CANVAS PRINT or as a POSTER
