Historians have sniffed out a similar canine in an Adriaen van de Venne drawing. "Operation Night Watch" looks at the dog in Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch. Photo: by Kelly Schenk, ...

AMSTERDAM — It didn’t exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city’s landmark ...

When Rembrandt van Rijn unveiled The Night Watch in 1642, it was unlike anything audiences had seen before. While typical military portraits showed men in stationary poses, the Dutch artist’s painting ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced last week that the dog depicted in the lower righthand corner of Rembrandt van Rijn's Night Watch (1642) was based on a popular drawing from the 17th-century.

What inspired that furry figure in the corner of Rembrandt’s celebrated painting? Researchers at the Rijksmuseum say they’ve solved the longtime mystery. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam It can ...

It didn't exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city's landmark Rijksmuseum, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. If the dog in one corner of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” painting looks a little out of ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — It didn’t exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city’s ...

A curator at Amsterdam's landmark Rijksmuseum has discovered more or less by accident that a dog in Rembrandt van Rijn’s famous “Night Watch” is a near-identical copy of a 1619 drawing by fellow Dutch ...