File:Rembrandt-Belsazar.jpg

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Summary

Rembrandt: Belshazzar's Feast

Artist



Alternative names	Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Description	Dutch painter, printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death	15 July 1606	4 October 1669
Location of birth/death	Leiden	Amsterdam
Work period	between circa 1625 and circa 1669 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Leiden (1620-1624), Amsterdam (1624-1625), Leiden (1625-1633), Amsterdam (1631-1669)
Authority file	: Q5598 VIAF: 64013650 ISNI: 0000000121363802 ULAN: 500011051 LCCN: n79142935 NLA: 35139809 WorldCat

Title

Belshazzar's Feast

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

According to Daniel 5:1-31, King Belshazzar of Babylon takes sacred golden and silver vessels from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem by his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar. Using these holy items, the King and his court praise 'the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone'. Immediately, the disembodied fingers of a human hand appear and write on the wall of the royal palace the words "MENE", "MENE", "TEKEL", "UPHARSIN"

Depicted people

Belshazzar

Date

circa 1635-1638

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 167.6 cm (65.9 in); width: 209.2 cm (82.3 in)

Collection

National Gallery

	Native name	National Gallery
	Parent institution	Board of Trustees of the National Gallery
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 30′ 32″ N, 0° 07′ 42″ W
	Established	1824
	Website	nationalgallery.org.uk
	Authority file	: Q180788 VIAF: 144868906 ISNI: 0000000406058908 ULAN: 500125190 LCCN: n80081622 NLA: 35311349 WorldCat

Current location

room 24

Accession number

NG 6350

Object history

by 1736: Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (1689-1776), Knowsley Hall, Knowsley
by 1964: Edward John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby (1919-1994), Knowsley Hall, Knowsley
1964: purchased by National Gallery, London

Exhibition history

Rembrandt. Sextiosex bilder från utställningen i Nationaluseum, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 12 January 1956–15 April 1956, cat. no. 15.
Art in the making: Rembrandt, 12 October 1988–17 January 1989, National Gallery, London, Cat.no. 7.
Rembrandt, The master and his workshop, Altes Museum, Berlin, 12 September 1991–10 November 1991, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 4 December 1991–1 March 1992, National Gallery, London, 26 March 1992–24 May 1992, Cat.no. 22.
Rembrandt-Caravaggio, 24 February 2006–18 June 2006, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Cat.no. 37.

Rembrandt, Pintor de historias, 15 October 2008–6 January 2009, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Cat.no. 23.

Credit line

Purchased by the National Gallery with support of The Art Fund

Inscriptions

Traces of signature and date:

Rembrand [.] / 163[.]

top right:

מנה / מנה / תקל / ופר / סין

In Latin script "Mene / Mene / Tekel / Uphar / sin". Written from top to bottom, in rows from right to left.

References

National Gallery Online Catalog, as Belshazzar's Feast, circa 1636-1638, height: 167.6 cm (65.9 in); width: 209.2 cm (82.3 in).
RKDimages, Art-work number 48717, as Het feestmaal van Belsazar (Daniël 5:1-6), circa 1635(1634-1636), height: 167 cm (65.7 in); width: 209 cm (82.2 in)Web Gallery of Art, as Belshazzar's Feast, circa 1636, height: 168 cm (66.1 in); width: 209 cm (82.2 in).

Authority file

: Q1167932
GND: 4388672-3

Source/Photographer

www.nationalgallery.org.uk : Home : Info

Other versions

File:Rembrandt - Belshazzar's Feast - WGA19123.jpg
Version from www.wga.hu

File:Rembrandt - Das gastmal des Belsazar.jpeg

File:Belshazzar’s feast, by Rembrandt.jpg

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	02:05, 15 February 2016	5,308 × 4,226 (16.82 MB)	Beyond My Ken	adjustments for visibility
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	20:22, 1 January 2006	1,037 × 820 (125 KB)	Factumquintus
	21:58, 27 February 2005	489 × 389 (32 KB)	Chrkl	Painting by Rembrandt showing the appearance of a ghostly grafitto in a biblical scene in ancient Babylonia. {{pd-art}}