Rembrandt van Rijn

Belshazzar’s Feast

US$ 639.00

The Babylonian king wheels around mid-banquet as a disembodied hand writes Hebrew letters on the wall behind him, wine spilling from an overturned cup. Rembrandt consulted a rabbi in Amsterdam for the inscription and arranged the characters in vertical columns, which is why the words are famously hard to read. Everything happens in the single instant of the king’s recoil.

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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) painted this in his ambitious early Amsterdam years, when dramatic gesture and theatrical lighting were his stock in trade and commissions were plentiful. He lived in the Jewish quarter of the city and drew on those connections for Hebrew texts and models. The looser, quieter manner of his late work was still decades away.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 46 × 37 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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