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Bathsheba at Her Bath is an oil painting
Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil ? especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil....
 of Bathsheba
Bathsheba

According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David , king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah....
 by Rembrandt from 1654. The model was Rembrandt's partner Hendrickje Stoffels
Hendrickje Stoffels

Hendrickje Stoffels was a model and partner of Rembrandt....
. She is known to have died at a young age and the shadow on her left breast has led some to speculate that her death was from breast cancer.

The painting hangs in the Louvre
Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
; it was one of 583 works donated by Dr. Louis La Caze
Louis La Caze

Dr. Louis La Caze was a successful French physician and collector of paintings whose bequest of 583 paintings to the Mus?e du Louvre was one of the largest the museum has ever received....
 in 1869.








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Bathsheba at Her Bath is an oil painting
Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil ? especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil....
 of Bathsheba
Bathsheba

According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David , king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah....
 by Rembrandt from 1654. The model was Rembrandt's partner Hendrickje Stoffels
Hendrickje Stoffels

Hendrickje Stoffels was a model and partner of Rembrandt....
. She is known to have died at a young age and the shadow on her left breast has led some to speculate that her death was from breast cancer.

The painting hangs in the Louvre
Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
; it was one of 583 works donated by Dr. Louis La Caze
Louis La Caze

Dr. Louis La Caze was a successful French physician and collector of paintings whose bequest of 583 paintings to the Mus?e du Louvre was one of the largest the museum has ever received....
 in 1869.

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    Louvre

    The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....