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Lot and His Daughters
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Few Old Testament stories are more morally charged than that of Lot and his daughters. After fleeing the city of Sodom, Lot’s wife disobeyed God and looked back at the city and was turned into a pillar of salt. Believing that they were the last humans on earth, Lot’s two daughters conspired to intoxicate their father with wine to conceive children with him. Lucas van Leyden’s interpretation takes license with the episode’s moral impropriety, doubling down on its erotic content by showing the daughters as naked temptresses and Lot, much younger than described, overwhelmed with desire.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLot and His Daughters, 1530. Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, 1494–about 1533). Engraving; sheet: 18.8 x 24.4 cm (7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection, 1944.26
