Woman Bathing (van Eyck)

Woman Bathing (or Woman at Her Toilet; sometimes, perhaps fancifully, known as Bathsheba at Her Toilet or Judith Beautifying Herself) is a lost panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. The work is today known through two copies which diverge in important aspects; one in Antwerp and a more successful but small c 1500 panel in Harvard University's Fogg Museum, which is in poor condition. It is unique in van Eyck's known oeuvre for portraying a nude in secular setting, although there is mention in two 17th-century literary sources of other now lost but equally erotic van Eyck panels.

Woman Bathing (van Eyck)

Woman Bathing (or Woman at Her Toilet; sometimes, perhaps fancifully, known as Bathsheba at Her Toilet or Judith Beautifying Herself) is a lost panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. The work is today known through two copies which diverge in important aspects; one in Antwerp and a more successful but small c 1500 panel in Harvard University's Fogg Museum, which is in poor condition. It is unique in van Eyck's known oeuvre for portraying a nude in secular setting, although there is mention in two 17th-century literary sources of other now lost but equally erotic van Eyck panels.