This represents a story from the Old Testament: after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by divine punishment, Lot's daughters, thinking that the human race had disappeared, wished to ensure its issue and made their father drunk so as to conceive children by him. The shocking part of the theme has been annulled and reduced to the simple sexual symbology of the little still-life of the pitcher and the scallop shell. In a perfect connected group, Lot appears sleeping and his daughters contemplating the glow of the destroyed cities. The influence of Naturalism is fused with the Classicist ideals, with a preference for light colours and finished drawing.
