The Toilet of Bathsheba by Rembrandt van Rijn

‘The Toilet of Bathsheba’, or ‘Batseba aan haar toilet (2 Samuel 11:2)’, a 1643 oil on oak painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) or by the workshop of Rembrandt, dimensions 57.2 cm x 76.2 cm (22.52” x 30.00”) currently located in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. On 9 June 1913 the painting was bought by Paris art dealer Duveen at the sale of the collection of Jhr. Hendricus Adolphus Steengracht, The Hague, at the auction house Georges Petit, Paris. From Duveen, the same year, it was bought by Benjamin Altman of New York and bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by Altman.