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
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).