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Rembrandt: Belshazzar's Feast  wikidata:Q1167932 reasonator:Q1167932
Artist
Rembrandt  (1606–1669)  wikidata:Q5598 s:en:Author:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn q:en:Rembrandt
 
Rembrandt
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 Edit this at Wikidata 4 October 1669 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Leiden Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
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
artist QS:P170,Q5598
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Belshazzar's Feast
label QS:Lit,"Il festino di Baldassarre"
label QS:Lfr,"Le Festin de Balthazar"
label QS:Lpl,"Uczta Baltazara"
label QS:Lla,"Convivium Balthasaris"
label QS:Lcy,"Gwledd Belsassar"
label QS:Lfi,"Belsassarin pidot"
label QS:Len,"Belshazzar's Feast"
label QS:Lnl,"Het feestmaal van Belsazar"
label QS:Les,"El festín de Baltasar"
label QS:Lde,"Das Gastmal des Belsazar"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
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 Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1635-1638
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 167.6 cm (65.9 in); width: 209.2 cm (82.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,167.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,209.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Current location
room 24
Accession number
NG 6350
Object history by 1736
date QS:P,+1736-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1736-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (1689-1776), Knowsley Hall, Knowsley
by 1964
date QS:P,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: 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)
dimensions QS:P2048,167.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,209.2U174728
.
RKDimages, Art-work number 48717, as Het feestmaal van Belsazar (Daniël 5:1-6), circa 1635
date QS:P,+1635-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(1634-1636), height: 167 cm (65.7 in); width: 209 cm (82.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,167U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,209U174728
Web Gallery of Art, as Belshazzar's Feast, circa 1636
date QS:P,+1636-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
, height: 168 cm (66.1 in); width: 209 cm (82.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,168U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,209U174728
.
Authority file
Source/Photographer www.nationalgallery.org.uk : Home : Info
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File:Rembrandt - Das gastmal des Belsazar.jpeg
File:Belshazzar’s feast, by Rembrandt.jpg

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Rembrandt's depiction of the biblical account of King Belshazzar seeing a hand writing the words "mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" on a wall.

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