The painting was created for the guild of musketeers and was destined for the seat of the headquarters of the Civic Guard of the city. The large canvas you observe not only presents people statically, but it presents an action in its boot. Captain Cocq gave the order that the army is moving to complete his round, which is why members of the group are taking their position, before starting the round of night patrol. Perhaps you too – as happens to many after observing this painting – will not solve your own doubt: among the many characters of the composition, who is that girl wearing a light robe, and leads attached to her waist a dead rooster? (The name of the captain, an imminent target practice, a figure that must balance chromatically the whole painting, a female presence in the painter’s life?)
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