If the dog in one corner of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch (1642) painting looks a little out of place as the brave citizens of Amsterdam march out to defend the city—he is. The Night Watch is currently being publicly restored inside a glass box at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The dog can be seen in the lower righthand corner of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch (1642) Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum“As soon as I saw that dog, The Night Watch dog came into my mind—I recognised it by the turn of the head,” she says. Further investigation into a chalk underdrawing of The Night Watch, using macro X-ray florescence (MA-XRF) scans, showed even more resemblances between the two dogs. “He didn’t want people to call him Rembrandt van Rijn, but just Rembrandt, like Michaelangelo,” Dibbits says.