Bathsheba at her Toilette
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Bathsheba at her Toilette” now? Collection: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Unknown.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- ГЭ-5590
In the catalog
Sources
- State Hermitage Museum
- Image: State Hermitage Museum — Museum open access
In the life of Pieter Lastman
The whole life1607–1633 · Workplace
Amsterdam
1617–1620
Pupil: Jan Lievens
1618
Recognised as Amsterdam’s foremost painter
Having quickly won fame for his history and biblical pictures, he runs a large workshop and sells his works on the open market at good prices; in 1618 he is recognised as the most outstanding painter of his native Amsterdam. His pictures are biblical and mythological subjects set against idyllic Roman landscapes: “The Flight into Egypt”, “Odysseus and Nausicaa”, “Midas”, “The Raising of Lazarus”.
1619
Takes Jan Lievens as a pupil
In 1619 he takes Jan Lievens as a pupil (by other accounts, Lievens studied with him from 1617). His other pupils include Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Nicolaes Lastman, Pieter Nedek, Jan Albertsz Rotius and, possibly, Nicolaes Moeyaert.
