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Artist



Alternative names	Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Description	Dutch painter, printmaker and draughtsman
Date of birth/death	15 July 1606	4 October 1669
Location of birth/death	Leiden	Amsterdam
Work period	between circa 1625 and circa 1669
Work location	Leiden (1620-1624), Amsterdam (1624-1625), Leiden (1625-1633), Amsterdam (1631-1669)
Authority control	VIAF: 64013650 LCCN: n79142935 GND: 11859964X SELIBR: 197544 BnF: cb11940484n BPN: 59069719 ULAN: 500011051 ISNI: 0000 0001 2136 3802 WorldCat

Title

Belshazzar's Feast.

Description

According to Daniel 5:1-31, King Belshazzar of Babylon takes sacred golden and silver vesselsfrom 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"

Date

circa 1635-1638

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 167.6 cm (66 in). Width: 209.2 cm (82.4 in).

Current location

National Gallery (London)

	Native name	National Gallery
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 30′ 30.96″ N, 0° 07′ 41.88″ W
	Established	1824
	Website	nationalgallery.org.uk
	Authority control	VIAF: 133598344 LCCN: n80081622 GND: 1003322-1 ULAN: 500125190 WorldCat

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: ממתום / ננקפי / אאלרז

References

National Gallery Online Catalog, as Belshazzar's Feast, circa 1636-1638, 167.6 × 209.2 cm (66 × 82.4 in).
RKDimages, Art-work number 48717, as Het feestmaal van Belsazar (Daniël 5:1-6), circa 1635 (1634-1636), 167 × 209 cm (65.7 × 82.3 in).
Web Gallery of Art, as Belshazzar's Feast, circa 1636, 168 × 209 cm (66.1 × 82.3 in).

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

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:10, 29 January 2013	5,308 × 4,226 (13.94 MB)	Slick-o-bot	Bot: convert to a non-interlaced jpeg (see bug #17645)
	01:38, 28 May 2010	5,308 × 4,226 (10.32 MB)	Olpl	Help:Zoomable_images#National_Gallery_collection
	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}}