Lot and His Daughters (Vouet)

Lot and His Daughters is a 1633 oil-on-canvas painting of Lot and his daughters by the French artist Simon Vouet, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.

Lot and His Daughters
Artist	Simon Vouet
Year	1633
Medium	oil painting on canvas
Movement	Baroque History painting
Subject	Lot and his daughters
Dimensions	160 cm × 130 cm (63 in × 51 in)[1]
Location	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession	1937

It depicts the Book of Genesis story in which, after the destruction of Sodom by divine judgment, Lot and his daughters take refuge in a cave. The daughters, believing that there are no men with whom to have offspring, get their father drunk and commit incest with him, one each night, subsequently becoming pregnant.

The subject, judged as shameful in the Middle Ages, was not explicitly represented, but since the Renaissance it was depicted frequently, because of the opportunity it offered to artists to depict an erotic subject.