Rembrandt van Rijn - The Toilet of Bathsheba 1643
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The Toilet of Bathsheba 1643
76x57cm oil/wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, US
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
King David, barely discernible atop the palace in the background, sees Bathsheba bathing and sends for her, despite the fact that she is married to his loyal soldier Uriah (Samuel 2:2–5). The king later arranges for Uriah to be killed in battle. The painting is one of a few dating from the 1640s in which Rembrandt revives his early, precisely descriptive manner in order to produce fine "cabinet pictures" for collectors. The others are also religious but not erotic, as this one was surely intended to be. The original state of the badly worn background may be judged from a reproductive engraving of 1763.