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Lot and his Daughters (Genesis 19:30–5)

Drawing
1597 (made)
Artist/Maker
Goltzius, Hendrick (artist)
Place of origin
Netherlands (drawn)

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.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleLot 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.
Grey Paper
Bistre
Drawing
Heightening
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 194mm
  • Width: 262mm
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed and dated at lower centre, in brown ink, Ao 1597. / HGoltzius (the two initials in ligature)
  • Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 392
  • On verso, in brown ink: at lower left, by Ploos van Amstel, hoog 7½ d / br –– 10¼ d / Hendk. Goltzius f 1597 / geb: Mulbrecht 1558 / gestorven haarlem 1617; and below this, with a dealer’s code, h i o; and below this, along lower left edge, by Esdaile, 433 s 1834 : 180x; and at lower centre, WEsdaile.
  • Inscribed on old mount, underneath the floated drawing, in graphite: at lower left, heeft aan Ploos van Amstel gekost f130:–– / f 2005. ––; and at lower right, with a dealer’s code, Loh:; and at lower right corner of mount, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), 221.
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.
Subjects depicted
Man
Women
Dog
Grapes
Trees
Lot
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.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.392

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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