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Lot and His Daughters (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 64.605.3)

Etching by Joseph Marie Vien, 1748, Metropolitan Museum of Art 64.605.3

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An etching titled "Lot and His Daughters," by Joseph Marie Vien, 1748, showing the biblical patriarch fleeing the destruction of Sodom with his daughters. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 64.605.3, Drawings and Prints department.

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Joseph Marie Vien, a French painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Neoclassicism. 1
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Sodom, Cities

This source names Sodom directly: "patriarch fleeing the destruction of Sodom with his daughters."

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Lot, Figures

The Met's own title for this print names the subject outright, "Lot and His Daughters," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.

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