The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1742: Ulysses and the Sirens
François Hutin
1742
Medium
etching
Dimensions
plate: 39.6 × 45.4 cm (15 9/16 × 17 7/8 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
2016.121.8
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).