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Landscape with Bathsheba
Also titled Landschap met Bathseba
Jan van Scorel (Schoorl, 1495–1562)
c. 1540 - c. 1545
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 222.8 cm x width 121 cm x thickness 6.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
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.
