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Lot and His Daughters

Lucas Van Leyden

Artwork Details

Lot and His Daughters
1530
Lucas Van Leyden
engraving on paper
7 x 9 3/4 in. (19.05 x 24.77 cm); ; ;14 3/10 in x 19 3/10 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm)
Museum Purchase
1953/1.49

Description

The story of Lot in the Old Testament book of Genesis presents the breaching of the taboo against incest and an element of eroticism. After the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's daughters thought that they and their father were the only people left on earth to propagate the human race. Plying Lot with wine, they each slept with him, after which they bore him Moab and Ammon.

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