Lot and his daughters

This is one side of a panel painted on both faces. The other side holds a Madonna and Child, with two small coats of arms in its lower corners, read as those of the Haller and Koberger families of Nuremberg. The panel is usually tied to the marriage of Wolf Haller to Ursula Koberger. Her father, Anton Koberger, ran the biggest printing house in Europe, 24 presses at its height, and he was also Dürer's godfather. The two families lived on the same street. The painting is dated to somewhere between 1496 and 1499, not long after Dürer came back from Venice. On this face Lot and his two daughters are on the road out of Sodom, the city burning far behind them. Wolf Haller fell out with his father-in-law a few years later, left Nuremberg for Vienna, and died there in 1505.