David and Bathsheba is a oil on panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), created in 1526. Measuring 21 × 29 cm, it depicts the biblical scene from 2 Samuel 11:2-5.
At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”