Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Willem Drost - Batsheba met de brief van koning David.jpg

Bathsheba holding King David's letter by Willem Drost

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Original – Bathsheba holding King David's letter by Willem Drost. Willem Drost's Batsheba tries to depict a most sensuous and beautiful woman so attractive that even a king would sin for. The painting is in Louvre.

Reason

Once upon a time there was a King, who was powerful, handsome, and self-assured. He played the harp gorgeously, and and was very creative, composed music - even if he didn't gave out his own album, but that was only because in those times recording was not fashionable. His name was King David. One day he saw this young woman, Bathsheba, having a bath from his palace roof and he was lost. So he played a dirty trick on the husband - he was sending him to war, to the front line where he was killed. The King married the widow - and their son was King Solomon. Batsheba's romance had captured the different painters fantasy for long time, even the Dutch Golden Age painter Willem Drost's imagination. He was 21 when he painted this, a pupil of Rembrandt. The model is Rembrandt's second wife. (Hm? Is this painting telling suddenly another story here?)

Articles in which this image appears

Bathsheba, Willem Drost, Bathsheba at Her Bath (Rembrandt)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology

Creator

Willem Drost

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 22:15, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Useful for Bathseba. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:02, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support looks good to me. Jim Carter 06:36, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

• Comment — "One day he saw this young woman, Bath-she-ba, having a bath." — Nomen est omen. Sca (talk) 13:48, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

^{Bathsheba: Bat 'daughter of', sheba 'abundance'. All in a bath. Hafspajen (talk) 00:33, 1 November 2014 (UTC)}

• Support – nice painting and likely my favourite out of Bathsheba depictions. SagaciousPhil - Chat 12:26, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:11, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Willem Drost - Batsheba met de brief van koning David.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:22, 9 November 2014 (UTC)