Bathsheba at the Bath is an 1817 history painting by the British artist David Wilkie.

[1] It depicts the biblical scene of Bathsheba being spied on by the Israeli king David while bathing, entrancing him.

[2] The subject had been a popular one since the Renaissance era, second only to David's battle against Goliath in depictions of the monarch.

[3] It was an unusual subject matter for Wilkie nonetheless, who was best known at this time for small genre paintings of everyday life.

[4] Wilkie exhibited the painting at the British Institution in 1818 where it was criticised by the press including the Radical newspaper The Examiner.