The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Lot and His Daughters
1530
(Dutch, 1494–1533)
Sheet: 18.8 x 24.4 cm (7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein X.68.16 ; Dutuit V.52.16
Location: 101B Prints & Drawings
Did You Know?
The middle ground of this image depicts Lot leaving behind the salt-pillar figure of his wife with his two daughters trailing behind him. The nakedness of the figures and Lot's dejected posture echo representations of Adam and Eve being expelled from paradise.Description
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.- (M. Knoedler & Co.)
- In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2025-January 11, 2026).Eight Masters of the Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 14, 1980-January 18, 1981).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1944.26