"Captain Frans Banning Cacq Mustering His
Company (The Night Watch)" (1642, oil on canvas, cut down from original size),
is considered to be one of Rembrandt's finest works. The rich palette of colors--browns,
blues, olive green, orange, and red--around a central core of lemon yellow,
exhances the natural glow of the painting(24). The
dark background architecture frames the scene. There are several figures who
do not seem to "belong"; they are probably people whom Rembrandt sketched as
he watched the streets of Amsterdam(25).
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