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Hutin’s drawing is an allegorical celebration of academic artistic training. The words <em>UT PICTURA POESIS </em>engraved on the stone tablet translate “as is painting, so is poetry.” Classical figures throughout the grand hall discuss their work as they practice different methods of making images. In the foreground, putti sculpt a portrait bust of Louis XV; behind them artists practice drawing a nude model. Among the sculptures in the room are the Farnese Hercules and the Venus de’ Medici, both famous Roman marbles in Italy, where Hutin trained from 1737 to 1742. In the upper right, Fame flies with trumpets above Minerva, the patron goddess of the arts, holding a paintbrush and palette as she drives out Ignorance and Envy.
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Document identity
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160717
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Ut Pictura Poesis
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drawing
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160717
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drawing
title
Ut Pictura Poesis
description
Hutin’s drawing is an allegorical celebration of academic artistic training. The words <em>UT PICTURA POESIS </em>engraved on the stone tablet translate “as is painting, so is poetry.” Classical figures throughout the grand hall discuss their work as they practice different methods of making images. In the foreground, putti sculpt a portrait bust of Louis XV; behind them artists practice drawing a nude model. Among the sculptures in the room are the Farnese Hercules and the Venus de’ Medici, both famous Roman marbles in Italy, where Hutin trained from 1737 to 1742. In the upper right, Fame flies with trumpets above Minerva, the patron goddess of the arts, holding a paintbrush and palette as she drives out Ignorance and Envy.
date
1745–1746
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79982348
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64108
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 53.2 x 38 cm (20 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
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France, 18th century
accession
1998.76
Source extras
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Gray wash, watercolor, graphite, black chalk, and red chalk on cream laid paper
tombstone
Ut Pictura Poesis, 1745–1746. Charles-François Hutin (French, 1715–1776). Gray wash, watercolor, graphite, black chalk, and red chalk on cream laid paper; sheet: 53.2 x 38 cm (20 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1998.76
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cream(1) laid paper laid down on blued white laid paper
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DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
lower left, in brown ink: Natoire [4?][illegible]
citations
citation
Foster, Carter E. "Jean-Bernard Restout's "Sleep: Figure Study": Painting and Drawing from Life at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture." <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 3 (1998): 48-85.
page_number
p. 56 (repr.; fig. 14); cat. no. 11
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www.jstor.org/stable/20079698
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 08:20:56.792000
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160717
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DR - French
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Gray wash, watercolor, graphite, black chalk, and red chalk on cream laid paper
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male
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1
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