Feeding the Hungry and Giving Alms
François Hutin
ca.1737–42
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Each): 11 11/16 × 9 7/16 in. (29.7 × 24 cm) Plate: 8 15/16 × 6 3/8 in. (22.7 × 16.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2020
Accession Number
2020.157.1
About the Artist
François Hutin
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).