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An older, lower resolution image (11206 × 9320 pixels) can be downloaded here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nachtwacht&p=1&ps=12&st=Objects&i

An older, lower resolution image (11206 × 9320 pixels) can be downloaded here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nachtwacht&p=1&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=0#/SK-C-5,0 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nachtwacht&p=... To avoid the dumb mandatory account login, just use https://bugmenot.com/view/rijksmuseum.nl https://bugmenot.com/view/rijksmuseum.nl . It worked just now (so be nice and leave it working). Despite the ill-advised mandatory account (really, what's up with that?), the Rijksmuseum is providing a better service than the neighbouring Van Goghmuseum, which refuses to share anything but low resolution photos of Vincent van Gogh's works. Public museums are supposed to be custodians of culture, not IP owners.

mjfisher 2y ago
I'm on mobile; I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the image of the painting and could zoom in to my heart's content - did it ask you for an account?
- Freak_NL 2y ago
  You can zoom in a lot on the 2490 × 1328 pixels offered. When you hit the download button for the full version, you get nagged. Edit: you can zoom in, and then it will offer up the painting in slices at a higher resolution. So in theory you could download those and stitch them together if you manage to hit an unscaled version.
re 2y ago
Wikimedia has a slightly higher-res image more easily accessible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt_-_Rijksmuseum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Re... (14,168 × 11,528 px)
- ozim 2y ago
  Cool wiki has people recognition on paintings so you can click the link to see note about person in the picture!
  - porphyra 2y ago
    It's not people recognition, it's just manually created tags by volunteers. Anyone can draw a box on any image and write whatever they want in it.
- Freak_NL 2y ago
  Odd that the resolution differs. The source linked to from Wikimedia Commons is the same page at the museum's website as the one I linked to.
  - SloopJon 2y ago
    The color for the Wikimedia image looks way off on my computer. Is it possible that it's tagged with the wrong color profile?
mistrial9 2y ago
the account might be a combination of "deter abusive downloads" and "help, we have not enough members" combined.. now thinking, the result of account gets sent to administration and then funders, too, as a report result. not defending the practice, but the institution has to defend and maintain, too.

mjfisher 2y ago

I'm on mobile; I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the image of the painting and could zoom in to my heart's content - did it ask you for an account?

Freak_NL 2y ago
You can zoom in a lot on the 2490 × 1328 pixels offered. When you hit the download button for the full version, you get nagged. Edit: you can zoom in, and then it will offer up the painting in slices at a higher resolution. So in theory you could download those and stitch them together if you manage to hit an unscaled version.

re 2y ago

Wikimedia has a slightly higher-res image more easily accessible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt_-_Rijksmuseum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Re... (14,168 × 11,528 px)

ozim 2y ago
Cool wiki has people recognition on paintings so you can click the link to see note about person in the picture!
- porphyra 2y ago
  It's not people recognition, it's just manually created tags by volunteers. Anyone can draw a box on any image and write whatever they want in it.
Freak_NL 2y ago
Odd that the resolution differs. The source linked to from Wikimedia Commons is the same page at the museum's website as the one I linked to.
- SloopJon 2y ago
  The color for the Wikimedia image looks way off on my computer. Is it possible that it's tagged with the wrong color profile?

mistrial9 2y ago

the account might be a combination of "deter abusive downloads" and "help, we have not enough members" combined.. now thinking, the result of account gets sent to administration and then funders, too, as a report result. not defending the practice, but the institution has to defend and maintain, too.