Visiting Prisoners, from The Seven Acts of Mercy
François Hutin
n.d.
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.7 × 16.9 cm (8 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 22.5 × 17 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
209948
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
François Hutin · 1686–1758
Bénézit gives year of birth as ca. 1685 and date of death as August 1758; Thieme-Becker mentions that François Hutin died in August 1758 at the age of 72. Father of Charles, sculptor, painter and delineator (1715-1776), Jean-Baptiste, painter and etcher (born ca. 1725), and Pierre, sculptor and delineator (died 1763).