Five sampling officials of the Amsterdam cloth guild look up from a table draped with a Persian-style rug, a bareheaded servant behind them, as if interrupted. Their unpaid job was to grade the quality of cloth. In his last great group portrait Rembrandt used a low viewpoint, because the canvas was to hang high on a wall of their guildhall, the Staalhof.
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The man at far right was long thought to hold a bag of seals. Restoration in 1991 showed that he holds a pair of gloves.
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