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Visiting the Imprisoned

François Hutin

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2020

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About François Hutin

1680–1758 • France

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).

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