Charles François Hutin
Charles François Hutin (4 July 1715 – 29 July 1776) was a French history and figure painter, engraver and sculptor. He became director of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.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. After his return to Paris in 1746, he was received into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, 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 g ...
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