Visiting the Imprisoned
ca.1737–42
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Each): 11 11/16 × 9 1/2 in. (29.7 × 24.2 cm) Plate: 8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in. (22.6 × 17.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2020
Accession Number
2020.157.6
Art Historical Context
**Visiting the Imprison** *François Hutin, ca. 1737–42* Etching, Sheet (each): 11 11/16 × 9 1/2 in. (29.7 × 24.2 cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art,, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2020Step into the evocative world of François Hutin'sVisiting the Imprison*, a delicate etching from around 1737–42, now treasured in the Metropolitan Museum of's Department of Drawings and. The notation "sheet (each)" suggests this work is part of a series, intimate moments of human connection amid confinement. Hutin, a French artist active in the early 18th century, crafted this during the Rococo era, a time when art e...
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).