Bathsheba Makes an Appeal to King David

historical

The subject of this painting is a rare one, and is often confused with the story of Esther and Ahasuerus. King David is old and weak when Bathsheba visits him. Bathsheba reminds him that he promised that her son Solomon would be king after him.

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About the Artist

Jan van Noordt

1623 – 1676

Jan van Noordt (also Joan van Noort), Dutch painter, active in Amsterdam. He was the pupil of Jacob Backer who greatly influenced his early style, but he also experimented with the effects of colour and light that Rembrandt had employed in his biblical small figure paintings. He produced history, mythological and religious paintings as well as portraits and Italianate landscapes. He was the teacher of the painter Johannes Voorhout.

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