# Bathsheba Bathing [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BORDONE, Paris]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 234 x 217 cm ## Commentary Bathsheba Bathing c. 1549 Oil on canvas, 234 x 217 cm Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne King David \(shown as a very small figure in the background, looking out of one of the windows of his palace\) fell in love with the beautiful Bathsheba when he saw her bathing and had her brought to him for a lovers' tryst. Soon afterward he sent her husband Uriah \(the horseman close to the vanishing point of the picture\) to his death, treacherously ordering him to be set in the forefront of the battle, and then married Bathsheba himself. God punished the couple with the death of their first son. Paris Bordone used the scenery appropriate to tragedy from Serlio's architectural treatise. He began by drawing the architecture on a full-size cartoon, which he then transferred to his canvas by tracing it through holes. ## Related artworks - [Allegory \(Venus, Flora, Mars and Cupid\)]() - [Allegory with Lovers]() - [Annunciation]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints]() - [Nude]() - [Portrait of a Bearded Man]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [Portrait of Nikolaus Körbler]() - [Portrait of Thomas Stachel]() - [Rest on the Flight into Egypt with St Catherine and Angels]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()