Landscape with Bathsheba

Landscape with Bathsheba

Het toilet van Bathseba

SK-A-670

Everything here exudes Classical antiquity, from the ancient fountain statues to the Classical architecture of the palace. The biblical story is subordinate to the vast panorama. Bathsheba sits bathing at lower left and is being spied on by King David, the small figure on the balcony at upper right. Even from that distance, he is seduced by Bathsheba’s beauty.

painter: Jan van Scorel, Utrecht

c. 1540 - c. 1545

olieverf op paneel

• height 100.4 cm x width 203.9 cm
• height 222.8 cm x width 121 cm x thickness 6.5 cm

Public domain

…; found in the attic of the Gouvernementsgebouw (Provincial Capitol), Groningen, 1878;{Filedt Kok 1998, p. 179, note 45.} transferred from the Gouvernementsgebouw to the museum, with SK-A-669, May 1879; on loan to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2004-10

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20015862