Bathsheba at her Bath (Veronese)

Bathsheba at her Bath is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese, dated around 1575 and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France.

It is generally agreed that the episode depicted is 2 Samuel 11, in which Bathsheba is seen by King David from the terrace of his palace while she bathes in the evening.

In this painting, one of his many masterpieces, Veronese vertically divided the space into two separate parts linked by agreements in the colors and a powerful chiaroscuro.

The arms represented on the pitcher may reflect the celebration of a marriage or an alliance between two powerful Venetian families.

[3] According to art historians Daniel Arasse and Joséphine Le Foll,[4] two biblical stories are intertwined in this painting:[5]