Lot and his Daughters (Genesis 19:30–5)
Drawing
1597 (made)
1597 (made)
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Lot and his Daughters, having fled the destruction of Sodom; Bistre on grey paper. Heightened with white, and the nude parts with flesh colour; Signed H. Goltzius, and dated 1597.
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| Title | Lot and his Daughters (Genesis 19:30–5) (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with brown wash and gouache in shades of carmine, white and pale grey, on faded blue-grey paper; the contours indented with a stylus; framing line in brown ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'Lot and his Daughters (Genesis 19:30–5)'; by Hendrick Goltzius, Pen and brown ink, with brown wash and gouache; Signed and dated; Dutch School; 1597 |
| Physical description | Lot and his Daughters, having fled the destruction of Sodom; Bistre on grey paper. Heightened with white, and the nude parts with flesh colour; Signed H. Goltzius, and dated 1597. |
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| Gallery label | Lot and his Daughters was a popular Old Testament story. This drawing is a traditional telling of the narrative. It shows the drunken Lot fornicating with his daughters, while Sodom burns in the distance. Hendrick Goltzius was a leading draughtsman and printmaker. He became an important artist in the transition between late 16th and early 17th-century artistic styles in the Dutch Republic. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | Provenance: Aegidius Laurens Tolling (c.1725–68), Amsterdam, his sale, Amsterdam, de Winter & IJver, 21ff. November 1768, Album I, lot 541; Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Jb Czn (1726–98), Amsterdam (L. 2034, 3002–4), his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley … Roos, 3ff. March 1800, Album B, lot 7 (to ‘Roos’ for 95 fl.); Bernardus de Bosch II (1742–1816), Amsterdam, his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley, Roos … de Vries, 10 March 1817, Album D, lot 8: ‘Loth bij zijne dochters in een landschap; kunstig geteekend met de pen en uitvoerig opgemaakt in roetkleur, en met wit gehoogd, h. 7½ , br. 10¼ d. Algemeen bekend door de prent van Saenredam’ (to Versteegh for 53 fl.); Dirk Versteegh (1751–1822), Amsterdam, his sale, Amsterdam, de Vries … Roos, 3ff. November 1823, Album PP, lot 1: ‘Loth et ses filles, à la plume, lavé en brun et rehaussé en blanc, par H. Goltzius; avec la gravure’ (to ‘Pakker’ for 32.10 fl.); Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London (L. 2445); Samuel Woodburn (1786–1853), London; William Esdaile (1758–1837), London (L. 2617), his sale, London, Christie’s, 18–25 June 1840, lot 545: ‘H.Goltzius. Lot and his Daughters, in sepia, on blue paper, heightened with white’ (to ‘Tiffin’ for £0. 3s. 6d.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869. |
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| Associated object | 13701 (Impression) |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 70, illus. p.118. |
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| Accession number | DYCE.392 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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