Which Amsterdam building originally displayed Rembrandt’s painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis?

Rembrandt’s The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis was originally displayed in Amsterdam Town Hall.

The painting was commissioned for the gallery of Amsterdam’s new town hall, now the Royal Palace Amsterdam, in the 1660s. It represented a story from Tacitus about the Batavian leader Claudius Civilis, who gathered tribal chiefs to resist Roman rule. The subject carried political associations for the Dutch Republic, which had recently fought for independence from Spain.

Rembrandt’s large canvas presented the conspirators around a table, with Civilis marked by his single eye. The stark, dramatic treatment did not satisfy the officials responsible for the decoration, and the work was returned to Rembrandt. He cut it down substantially, and the surviving fragment is now in Stockholm.

The original setting is therefore different from the Kloveniersdoelen, where The Night Watch was installed, and from Rembrandt’s former house, which is preserved as a museum.