[Freak_NL]

An older, lower resolution image (11206 × 9320 pixels) can be downloaded here:

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nachtwacht&p=...

To avoid the dumb mandatory account login, just use https://bugmenot.com/view/rijksmuseum.nl . It worked just now (so be nice and leave it working).

Despite the ill-advised mandatory account (really, what's up with that?), the Rijksmuseum is providing a better service than the neighbouring Van Goghmuseum, which refuses to share anything but low resolution photos of Vincent van Gogh's works. Public museums are supposed to be custodians of culture, not IP owners.

[re]

Wikimedia has a slightly higher-res image more easily accessible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Re... (14,168 × 11,528 px)

[ozim]

Cool wiki has people recognition on paintings so you can click the link to see note about person in the picture!

[porphyra]

It's not people recognition, it's just manually created tags by volunteers. Anyone can draw a box on any image and write whatever they want in it.

[Freak_NL]

Odd that the resolution differs. The source linked to from Wikimedia Commons is the same page at the museum's website as the one I linked to.

[SloopJon]

The color for the Wikimedia image looks way off on my computer. Is it possible that it's tagged with the wrong color profile?

[mjfisher]

I'm on mobile; I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the image of the painting and could zoom in to my heart's content - did it ask you for an account?

[Freak_NL]

You can zoom in a lot on the 2490 × 1328 pixels offered. When you hit the download button for the full version, you get nagged.

Edit: you can zoom in, and then it will offer up the painting in slices at a higher resolution. So in theory you could download those and stitch them together if you manage to hit an unscaled version.

[mistrial9]

the account might be a combination of "deter abusive downloads" and "help, we have not enough members" combined.. now thinking, the result of account gets sent to administration and then funders, too, as a report result. not defending the practice, but the institution has to defend and maintain, too.