Lot and his Daughters
Follower of Leonhard Kern German
Not on view
After their home in Sodom was destroyed, Lot and his two daughters fled to the mountains, where the girls concluded that their only hope of procreating was with their own father (Genesis 19:30-38). This group shows one of them plying him with wine to achieve her goal; her sister turns away in shame. The scene was popular with artists, its scandalous nature being justified by its biblical source. Like the nearby Standing Woman, this work is carved from a soft wood; its generalized details differ from those of the more incisively cut boxwood sculpture of Christ at the Column beside it.
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