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Bathsheba

1714

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The story

Walking on his palace roof, King David saw Bathsheba bathing, slept with her, and then had her husband Uriah sent to die at the front. With Eve, she was almost the only female nude Christian art could regularly justify, which made her bath a favorite subject for painters.

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Object details

Title: Bathsheba
Artist: Adriaen van der Werff
Date: 1714
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on panel
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Private collection (sold at Dorotheum)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0585
Original image: 2251 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Adriaen van der Werff. Bathsheba. 1714. Private collection (sold at Dorotheum). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0585/