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- Title:
Belshazzar's Feast
- Date:
- 1820
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 31 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches (80 x 120.7 cm), Frame: 35 1/2 × 51 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (90.2 × 130.2 × 6.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "J. Martin 1820"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.440
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.440FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural | banquet | Bible | chaos | columns (architectural elements) | concubines | courtiers | death | drinking | feast | food | king (person) | lightning | meteorology | night | Old Testament | palace | prophet | religious and mythological subject | storm | wives
- Associated Places:
- Babylon | Iraq
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:924
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