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Belshazzar's Feast

about 1635

REMBRANDT
1669 - 1606

Collections Fund, 1964
.NG6350. Bought with a contribution from the National Art

(?) Signed and dated lower right: Rembrand./f 163

looted from the Temple in Jerusalem
served wine in the sacred vessels his father Nebuchadnezzar had
Babylon, gave for his nobles. At this banquet he blasphemously
Daniel )5: 1-6, 25-8), tells of a banquet Belshazzar, King of
.Rembrandt's source for this painting, the Old Testament Book of

Medes and Persians.' That very night Belshazzar was slain
in the balances and found wanting; your kingdom is given to the
of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed
UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation: 'God has numbered the days
transliterated the inscription reads: MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
wrote on the wall a phrase only Daniel could decipher. When
.Rembrandt shows the moment when a divine hand appeared and

history paintings
attempt to establish himself as a painter of large-scale Baroque
picture, painted in about 1635, is an example of Rembrandt's
columns, rather than right to left, as Hebrew is written. The
yet mistranscribed one of the characters and arranged them in
his friend, the learned Rabbi and printer, Menasseh ben Israel,
.Rembrandt derived the form of Hebrew inscription from a book by

Gallery, London from July to September 2004
Gallery, Newcastle from April to July 2004, and the National
Art Gallery, Bristol from January to April 2004, the Laing Art
.On loan to the exhibition 'Making Faces' at the City Museum and

Oil on canvas
.x 209.2 cm 6.167

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