Brullov K. P. Bathsheba

Brullov K. P.

1799, St Petersburg -1852, Manziana (near Rome)

Bathsheba

Version of Bathsheba (1832, Tret. Gal.). 1830s (?)

oil on canvas. 87,5 х 61,5
Ж-5083
Пост. в 1907 от А. А. Козловой

Period Early 19th century
CategoryBiblical Subject
Keywords The Epoch of Nicolas I (1825-1855) | Nude Model
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According to the Bible, Bathsheba was the wife of King David. Bathsheba is generally depicted in art next to a spring, attended by a maid and a negro boy. This was a subject highly popular in European painting as a specific hymn of praise to female beauty and this is how it was painted by Brullov. The artist, however, also interprets the biblical scene in the spirit of the "Italian genre", which was popular in Russian art in the 1840s. The canvas appears to have been painted in the early 1830s in Italy. A large unfinished picture by Brullov on the same subject hangs in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

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