Rembrandt's civic guard portrait shows a company of Amsterdam militia getting into formation to march, not sitting for the record. The captain in black gives the order, his lieutenant steps forward, and the light picks out the gesture that starts the whole scene moving.
Rembrandt's 1662 group portrait of the Amsterdam drapers' guild wardens, painted for their own hall, turns a formal civic commission into a scene of interrupted attention. This tour follows the six figures, the objects on their table, and the small background painting that frames their work.
Rembrandt's small panel shows Andromeda, the princess of Greek myth, bound to the rocks by the sea and left for the monster. The guide reads her lifted wrists, averted face and the grey water beside her as a scene of captivity, waiting and rescue to come.
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