Bathsheba After the Bath, Jan Steen, about 1670–1675
Jan Steen, portreJan SteenHollanda, 1626–1679

Bathsheba After the Bath

about 1670–1675 · Painting · 57.5 × 44.5 cm

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Jan Steen painted Bathsheba After the Bath around 1670–1675; it is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. A servant cuts her toenails as she looks directly outward, loosely holding David's summons. Steen presents her as a temptress rather than a distressed victim. Her robe reveals a breast and legs; a discarded shoe signifies lust, while the fountain probably suggests fertility. She ignores both a small dog and the older woman touching her shoulder. The painting hangs in East Pavilion gallery E204.

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Bathsheba stares brazenly out at the viewer while a maidservant trims her toenails. King David, who saw her beauty and desired her, sent her a summons to appear at his palace. Although she was married, Bathsheba was forced to comply. A popular subject, artists often portrayed Bathsheba as distraught about her dilemma. Here, Jan Steen depicted her as a temptress, rather than the innocent victim of the king's passion. In this moralizing painting, Steen commented on the foolishness of human behavior. Bathsheba's robe is casually arranged to reveal her breast and bare legs. The shoe in the right foreground symbolizes lasciviousness; the fountain on the left probably alludes to female fecundity. She is so lost in her thoughts that she holds King David's note loosely in her right hand and pays no attention to the small dog or to the old woman grasping her shoulder.

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Jan Steen: hayatındaki yeri

Tüm yaşam öyküsü
  1. 1660–1670

    Haarlem: his most productive period

    From 1660 to 1670 Steen lived in Haarlem, and this was the most productive period of his life.

  2. 1669–1670

    The deaths of his wife, mother and father

    By 1669 Steen's finances had improved, but in the spring his wife died, later that year his mother, and a year later his father.

  3. 1670

    Returns to Leiden, to his parents' house

    After his father's death Steen returned to Leiden and lived for the rest of his life in the house he inherited from his parents.

  4. 1671

    Elected head of the Leiden Guild of St Luke

    In 1671 Steen was elected princeps — head — of the local Guild of St Luke.

  5. 1672

    Opens the tavern “De Vrede” (“Peace”)

    Steen opened the tavern “De Vrede” (“Peace”); his debts mounted again, the art market was declining, and according to Houbraken he often spent his time drinking.

  6. 1672

    The “Year of Disaster”: the art market collapses

    In 1672, known in the Netherlands as the “Year of Disaster”, the art market collapsed.

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Aynı salonda · Museum East Pavilion, Gallery E204, J. Paul Getty Müzesi

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