Famous work · not an exact-location map point
Belshazzar's Feast
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
This famous work does not have a single exact real-world viewpoint. The connection below explains its actual relationship to the real world.
- Date
- 1636-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Location relations
Each kind of real-world link is kept separate — a documented viewpoint is never merged with a depicted place or a creation location.
Inspired by this place — general area
Hebrew
Where the original is now
National Gallery
In the collection of National Gallery
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- The National Gallery, London — collection record for Rembrandt van Rijn, ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’, NG6350; c. 1636–38, oil on canvas, 168 × 209 cm; the Hebrew inscription arranged in vertical columns after a suggestion attributed to Menasseh ben Israel; bought 1964 (nationalgallery.org.uk)
- ‘A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings’ (Rembrandt Research Project), vol. III, A 110; Bredius/Gerson no. 497