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Bathsheba at Her Bath (or Bathsheba with King David's Letter) is an oil painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt (1606–1669), finished in 1654.. A depiction that is both sensual and empathetic, it shows a moment from the Old Testament story related in 2 Samuel 11 in which King David sees Bathsheba bathing and, entranced, impregnates her. [1]
Bathsheba at her Bath is an oil on canvas painting executed c.1720 by the Venetian artist Sebastiano Ricci which is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.A common subject amongst artists, this was the first of two of Ricci's depictions of the theme.
Bathsheba's name appears in 1 Chronicles 3:5 spelled "Bath-shua", the form becomes merely a variant reading of "Bath-sheba". The passages in which Bath-sheba is mentioned are 2 Samuel 11:2–12:24 , and 1 Kings 1:2 —both of which are parts of the oldest stratum of the books of Samuel and Kings, part of that court history of David , written by ...
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Bathsheba at her Bath is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese, dated around 1575 and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France. History [ edit ]
Bathsheba with David's Letter is a 1654 oil on canvas painting by Willem Drost, showing the Biblical character Bathsheba.It was produced just before the artist set out for Italy and at the same time as his teacher Rembrandt's Bathsheba at Her Bath [1] - both works opt not to show King David witnessing her bathing but her receiving his letter afterwards, giving a more introspective feel ...
At the time, Bathsheba was married to a soldier in David's army. He was killed shortly after the event - David then married Bathsheba and their son was born. The painting depicts the precise moment that David spots Bathsheba (David is the tiny figure at the top left of the picture). However, the focus of the painting is entirely on the calm ...
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