Researchers find never-before-discovered sketch under layers of paint from “The Night Watch”

According to Taco Dibbits, the director of the Rijksmuseum, this is a breakthrough in the research: “We always suspected that Rembrandt must have made a sketch on the canvas before starting this insanely complex composition, but that has remained an assumption until now. .” The fact that researchers have now been able to observe the sketch is due to the state-of-the-art research techniques they could use to look under the different layers of paint.

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