# Lot and His Daughters [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COURBET, Gustave]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm ## Commentary Shortly after his arrival in Paris, Courbet made a very important acquaintance, that of the genre-painter François Bonvin. From him he learnt the sacrosanct ritual of copying old masters in the Musée du Luxembourg and the Louvre. Following in the footsteps of Géricault, Chassériau and Delacroix, Courbet discovered the Venetian and Bolognese schools of Italian Renaissance painting, the northern Baroque of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the works of Velázquez, Zurbarán and Murillo. The principal surviving records of this period are his copies of Guercino's Vision of St Jerome \(1840\) and Lot and his Daughters . Courbet destroyed most of his other early works, sparing only some portraits and his first big history paintings, in which he was clearly struggling with the heritage of Romanticism. ## Related artworks - [A Burial at Ornans]() - [After Dinner at Ornans]() - [Artist at His Easel]() - [Beach near Trouville]() - [Burial at Ornans \(detail\)]() - [Cliffs at Étretat]() - [Courbet in his Cell at Sainte-Pélagie]() - [Farmers of Flagey on the Return from the Market]() - [Firemen Running to a Fire]() - [Flower Still-Life]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Dead Horse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()