Alessandro Turchi, 1578 Verona – 1649 Rom, zu... Lot n° 276

LOTH AND HIS DAUGHTERS Oil on canvas. Doubled. 31 x 40 cm. In gilded magnificent frame. Depicting a scene from the Old Testament: after being rescued from the burning city of Sodom, Loth had fled with his daughters to the mountains into a cave. Worried about the lack of offspring and in the absence of husbands, the young women knew no other way to help themselves than to pour wine for their father and lie with him at night. In the painting, the three figures are seen at a stone table covered with white cloth and various dishes. The seated Loth with free upper body holds in his muscular outstretched arm a glass, into which his daughter standing on the left of him with naked upper body and brown robe, which leaves her right leg free, pours wine from a splendor jug. The daughter sitting opposite him in back view, again with naked upper body and a bright red cloth covering the hip area and the legs, further prompts her sister to the action by pointing at the father. In the background on the left, the view falls on the burning city in bright yellow-red hues. Painting of a popular theme in art history with strong contrasts of light and dark, emphasizing in particular the nudity of the two daughters, against the dark cave background. Retouching. Note: Initially influenced by Mannerism in Verona, Turchi worked for some time in Venice. In 1616 he went to Rome to work on the painting in the Palazzo del Quirinale, but here he was under the influence of the Carraccis as well as Guido Reni (1575-1642) and Michelangelo Merisi il Caravaggio (1570/71-1610). (13020513) (18) Alessandro Turchi,1578 Verona - 1649 Rome, attributed LOTH AND HIS DAUGTHERSOil on canvas. Relined. 31 x 40 cm.