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Original – Bathsheba holding King David's letter by Willem Drost. Willem Drost's Batsheba tries to depict a most sensuous and beautiful woman so attractive that even a king would sin for. The painting is in Louvre.
Reason
Once upon a time there was a King, who was powerful, handsome, and self-assured. He played the harp gorgeously, and and was very creative, composed music - even if he didn't gave out his own album, but that was only because in those times recording was not fashionable. His name was King David. One day he saw this young woman, Bathsheba, having a bath from his palace roof and he was lost. So he played a dirty trick on the husband - he was sending him to war, to the front line where he was killed. The King married the widow - and their son was King Solomon. Batsheba's romance had captured the different painters fantasy for long time, even the Dutch Golden Age painter Willem Drost's imagination. He was 21 when he painted this, a pupil of Rembrandt. The model is Rembrandt's second wife. (Hm? Is this painting telling suddenly another story here?)
Articles in which this image appears
Bathsheba, Willem Drost, Bathsheba at Her Bath (Rembrandt)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology
Creator
Willem Drost
Bathsheba: Bat 'daughter of', sheba 'abundance'. All in a bath. Hafspajen (talk) 00:33, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Willem Drost - Batsheba met de brief van koning David.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:22, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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