# Lot and his Daughters

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## Artwork

- Artist: [HARTMANN, Johannes Jakob](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hartmann-johannes-jakob-r31b95b2ed860e8>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on copper, 41 x 55 cm

## Commentary

Johannes Jakob Hartmann was the most important landscape painter in Bohemia in the early eighteenth century. He updated themes found in Flemish art of the sixteenth-century for eighteenth-century audiences, The present picture depicts the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah \(Gen. 19:1-28\), two cities which God razed to the ground because they failed to show hospitality to two angels sent by Him. In the background the city of Sodom is burning.

## Related artworks

- [Landscape with St John the Baptist Preaching](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hartmann-johannes-jakob-r31b95b2ed860e8/landscape-with-st-john-the-baptist-preaching-r8f30b4a1df6123>)
- [Landscape with the Conversion of St Paul](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hartmann-johannes-jakob-r31b95b2ed860e8/landscape-with-the-conversion-of-st-paul-r605a1379dbb699>)

## Attribution

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