Charles François Hutin (4 July 1715 – 29 July 1776) was a French history and figure painter, engraver and sculptor. He became director of the Royal Academy of Arts in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

.Hélène Guicharnaud. "Hutin." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 6 January 2017

Life and work

Hutin was born in Paris in 1715. He studied painting under Francois Le Moine, and in his twenty-first year obtained the grand prize for historical painting, and went to Rome, where he spent seven years. There he studied sculpture with

René-Michel Slodtz René-Michel Slodtz called Michel-Ange Slodtz (1705–1764) was a French sculptor who worked in Baroque style, and active mainly in Paris and Rome for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. Biography A Parisian by birth, Slodtz's father, Sébastien Slo ...

. After his return to Paris in 1746, he was received into the Royal Academy. To gain admission he executed a sculpture as his presentation piece ("morceau de reception") and this attracted the attention of the Elector of Saxony, who invited him to come to Dresden in 1748; he went there with his brother Pierre Hutin. There, he made copies of the paintings in the gallery which were published in two volumes called Dresden Gallery'' (1753–57); his brother, Pierre, also contributed some drawings. The plates for this publication were engraved in Paris between 1750 and 1756 and over 20 engravers contributed. Hutin - Charon, nocher des Enfers 03

In 1764, he became director of the Dresden Royal Academy of Arts. He executed an altar painting of the crucifixion in the

Katholische Hofkirche Dresden Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dresden, previously the Catholic Church of the Royal Court of Saxony, called in German Katholische Hofkirche and since 1980 also known as Kathedrale Sanctissimae Trinitatis, is the Catholi ...

in Dresden, and, in one of the chapels behind the main altar, a fresco ceiling. He published his graphic works in 35 plates under the title ''Recueil de différents sujets composés et gravés par Charles Hutin à Dresden'' in Dresden in 1763. Hutin died in

on 29 July 1776.

References

Sources

*Louis-Étienne Dussieux,
Les Artistes français à l'étranger
' (Paris; Lyon, Jacques Lecoffre, 1876) pp. 89–91. Attribution: *

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hutin, Charles Francois French history painters French muralists 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors French engravers 1715 births 1776 deaths 18th-century engravers 18th-century French painters French male painters 18th-century French male artists