Artemisia Gentileschi, Rome 1593 - 1654 Naples
Bathsheba at her bath
Oil on canvas
80½ by 61¼ in.; 204.5 by 155.5 cm.
Private collection
According to the Hebrew Bible, "Bat Sheva," , "daughter of the oath"; was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah. She is most known for the Bible story in which she was summoned by King David who had seen her bathing and lusted after her.
Bathsheba was from David's own tribe and the granddaughter of one of David's closest advisors. She was the mother of Solomon, who succeeded David as king, making her the Queen Mother. More on Bat Sheva
Artemisia Gentileschi, Rome 1593 - 1654 Naples
Bathsheba at her bath
Oil on canvas
72 7⁄8 x 57 1⁄4 in. (185.2 x 145.4 cm.)
Private collection
Artemisia Gentileschi, Rome 1593 - 1654 Naples Bathsheba at her bath, c. between 1640 and 1645
Oil on canvas
height: 288 cm (113.3 in); width: 228 cm (89.7 in)
Private collection
Artemisia Gentileschi, Rome 1593 - 1654 Naples
Bathsheba at her bath, c. between 1640 and 1645
Oil on canvas
225 × 226 cm (88.5 × 88.9 in)
Private collection
Artemisia Gentileschi, Rome 1593 - 1654 Naples Bathsheba at her bath, c. between 1640 and 1645
Oil on canvas
258×218 cm
Private collection
Artemisia Gentileschi, Rome 1593 - 1654 Naples
Bathsheba at her bath, c. 1650
Oil on canvas
33 1/4 x 45 1/2 in. (84.5 x 115.6 cm)
Art Museum Gallery
The compositional structure is linked to that present in the other versions, which seem to communicate at a distance between them, in the repetition and alternation of the various elements, in the architectural background of classical memory as well as in the figures of the sensual biblical heroine, variously posed, and of the two maids who await diligently at her service. More on this painting
Artemisia Gentileschi; (July 8, 1593 – c. 1656) was
an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished
painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio. In an era when women
painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was
the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in
Florence.
She
painted many pictures of strong and suffering women from myth and the Bible –
victims, suicides, warriors.
Her best-known work is Judith Slaying Holofernes (a
well-known medieval and baroque subject in art), which "shows the
decapitation of Holofernes, a scene of horrific struggle and
blood-letting". That she was a woman painting in the seventeenth century
and that she was raped and participated in prosecuting the rapist, long
overshadowed her achievements as an artist. For many years she was regarded as
a curiosity. Today she is regarded as one of the most progressive and
expressionist painters of her generation. More on Artemisia
Gentileschi
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