Lot and His Daughters

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Lot and His Daughters

Holland, circa 1597-1600
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 64 × 81 in. (162.56 × 205.74 cm) Frame: 74 × 91 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (187.96 × 233.05 × 8.89 cm)
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation through Dan Belin (M.81.53)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Prossibly "an Italian," Antwerp, by 1604.(1) Possibly Seger Tierens,(2) The Hague (estate sale, The Hague, 23 July 1743, lot 114, " Loth met sijn Dogters, leevensgroot, door ditto [Wtenwaal], hoog

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Prossibly "an Italian," Antwerp, by 1604.(1) Possibly Seger Tierens,(2) The Hague (estate sale, The Hague, 23 July 1743, lot 114, " Loth met sijn Dogters, leevensgroot, door ditto [Wtenwaal], hoog vyf voet twee duim, breed ses voet seven duim").(3) [Francis Howard (1874-1954), Dorking, Surrey, by 1929(4) (sale, London, Christie's, 25 Nov. 1995, lot 47, sold to)]; [Arcade Gallery, London]. [Orsino Orselli, Florence, sold 1963 to]; Milton (1917-2015) and Cecile (d. 1998) Hebald, Rome and Los Angeles, sold 1981 to;(5) LACMA.

Footnotes

(1) Van Mander 1604, in his biography of Wtewael, pp. 189-90, refers to an Italian who owned a large painting of Lot and His Daughters: "Te Antwerpen is een Italiaan, die een groot stuk, zes voeten hoog en tien lang, van hem bezit, verbeeldende Loth met zijne dochters, waarin de Nakten of Beelden zo groot als 't Leven uitneemend schoon voorkomen, als mede een kunstige Brand, boomstammen enz."

(2) The catalogue notes that Seger Tierens, deceased, was "advocaat voor de respective Hoven van Justitie" (lawyer for the respective courts of justice).

(3) First suggested by Lowenthal 1986, pp. 91, 203.

(4) Francis Howard was a pictures agent working with Duveen Bros. In 1928-29 he corresponded with Duveen about paintings in the collection of Lord Sackville, Knole Park. Lindeman 1929, p. 254, no. XLIII, pl. XXIX, as "Col. Howard, London."

(5) Milton Hebald was an American sculptor who lived and worked in Rome for fifty years. A photograph of the painting was sent by Cecille Hebald to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, in 1965.

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Bibliography

  • Lowenthal, Anne W. Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1986
  • Spicer, Joaneath A., and Lynn Federle Orr. Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Baltimore: The Walters Art Galler, 1997.
  • Lowenthal, Anne W. Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1986
  • Spicer, Joaneath A., and Lynn Federle Orr. Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Baltimore: The Walters Art Galler, 1997.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 3, Dutch Painting, Flemish Painting, Spanish Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Einzig, Barbara, ed. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1979-June 30, 1981. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.

  • Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.


  • Clifton, James, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Pleasure and Piety: the Art of Joachim Wtewael. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2015.

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