An oil on wood panel titled "The Toilet of Bathsheba," by Rembrandt, 1643, showing Bathsheba being attended by a servant, the moment from the Second Book of Samuel that precedes King David's summons of her. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 14.40.651, European Paintings department, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913.
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This source names Samuel directly: "the moment from the Second Book of Samuel that precedes King David's summons of her."
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The Met's own title for this panel names the subject outright, "The Toilet of Bathsheba," and the museum's own Getty AAT-linked tag confirms Bathsheba, a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.
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