Lot with his wife and daughters flee Sodom, Lucas Vorsterman (I), after Peter Paul Rubens, after Anthony Van Dyck, 1620 print An angel leads Lot and his wife and his two daughters from Sodom. A dog runs for them. In the background a building with heavy columns and a landscape. Proefpress of the unfinished engraving. Part of the lower zone and the entire left side are not yet complete. Of the right foot of Lot and the feet of the angel, only the contours are indicated. Only the contour of the right leg is engraved from the dog. The stone and the plants in the right corner are also unfinished. P
Lot with his wife and daughters flee Sodom, Lucas Vorsterman (I), after Peter Paul Rubens, after Anthony Van Dyck, 1620 print An angel leads Lot and his wife and his two daughters from Sodom. A dog runs for them. In the background a building with heavy columns and a landscape. Proefpress of the unfinished engraving. Part of the lower zone and the entire left side are not yet complete. Of the right foot of Lot and the feet of the angel, only the contours are indicated. Only the contour of the right leg is engraved from the dog. The stone and the plants in the right corner are also unfinished. Part of the well-completed left side of the plate and so also from the top and bottom was cut later. The proof, where the plate edge is only partly visible, measures 370 x 465; The completed plate 328 x 387 mm. To Rubens' painting in the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. The drawing that probably served as a model before the engraving is attributed to Anthony Van Dyck and is located in the Louvre. paper engraving the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: Lot and his family flee to Zoar, carrying their belongings; an angel may be showing the way (Genesis 19:24-29)
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