Bathsheba
unknown
Basic information
- ID
- Ж-3483
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Bathsheba
- Date of creation
- 1st half of the 19th c.
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions
- 174 x 124 cm (height x width)
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- religious
- Provenance
- Received from the Hermitage, 1955
- Exposition
- Potocki Palace
Information about author
Object description
The painting depicts a naked Bathsheba bathing. A servant assists her. The subject of the painting is a biblical story described in Chapter 11 of the Second Book of Kings. Bathsheba was a woman of extraordinary beauty, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, a commander of King David. One evening, King David was walking and saw a beautiful woman bathing (2 Samuel 11:2). David desired her and took her to his palace. Later, the king arranged for Bathsheba's husband to be killed. To accomplish this, he wrote a letter to the army commander Joab, instructing: "Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest, then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die" (2 Samuel 11:15).
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
