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treatment, one cannot help feeling that part of its charm has gone, now that the splendid isolation of the soldier has been lost by the sudden appearance of another soldier .... Whoever overpainted this detail at such an early stage in the picture's history seemed to have understood that he could actually strengthen the composition."
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The painting was cleaned in 2004. During this treatment, old overpainting dating to the eighteenth century or earlier was removed, revealing a second soldier whose legs are visible below the arch at left. In 2005, the art historian Bart Cornelis wrote: "Although the painting looks brilliant after
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is the most enigmatic of Fabritius's scant few works.... This is a public painting of inward emotion; a civic guard with a private mind.... He might be a deserter, outsider or anti-hero. Fabritius withholds his story, almost to the point of abstraction".
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68 cm × 58 cm (27 in × 23 in)
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Cornelis, B. (2005). "Carel Fabritius. The Hague and Schwerin".
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First survey exhibition ever of the work of Carel Fabritius
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death
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This article about a seventeenth-century painting is a
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Carel Fabritius
Oil on canvas
Staatliches Museum Schwerin
Schwerin
Germany
Carel Fabritius
Staatliches Museum
Schwerin
sentry
Laura Cumming
First survey exhibition ever of the work of Carel Fabritius
Leica Microsystems
The Sentry, Carl Fabritius
Der "Torwache" von Carel Fabritius



The Sentry by Carel Fabritius
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Carel Fabritius
Hera
Portrait of a Seated Woman with a Handkerchief
Hagar and the Angel
Portrait of Abraham de Potter
A View of Delft
The Goldfinch
The Sentry

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