The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1741: Neptune and Amphitrite
François Hutin
1741
Medium
etching
Dimensions
plate: 39.2 × 45 cm (15 7/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison
Accession Number
2016.121.6
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).