A lovely young woman is bathing at a fountain. It is Bathsheba, with whom King David fell in love when he saw her from his palace roof. The story of David and Bathsheba is told in the Old Testament. Jan van Scorel has set this Bible story in an open landscape. The work was painted in around 1545. No later works are known by him.
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