Militia portraits were usually tidy rows of faces. Rembrandt turned the company of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq into a burst of movement, with muskets loading, a drum rolling and a mysterious girl in gold glowing among the men. It is not a night scene: the nickname came from darkened varnish.
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The chicken hanging from the girl's belt shows claws, a pun on the militia's name, the Kloveniers.
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