Painting: Bathsheba Bathing (Bathseba im Bade/ Betsabea al bagno) by Francesco Hayez (1834), an 1834 oil painting on canvas, 77 cm x 107 cm, is currently located in a private collection in Lugano.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba (Bat Sheva, daughter of the oath) was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, King of Israel and Judah. She was the daughter of Eliam, one of King David's Thirty Warriors. Eliam was also the son of Ahitophel, one of David's chief advisors. Ahitophel was from Giloh, a city of Judah, and thus 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.
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