Muscles of the right side of the head and neck. Colour mezzotint by J.F. Gautier d'Agoty, 1745-1746.

  • Gautier Dagoty, 1717-1785.
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[1745 [-1746]]
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33381i
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Muscles of the right side of the head and neck. Colour mezzotint by J.F. Gautier d'Agoty, 1745-1746. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The orbicularis oculi (no. 20) is seen partially detached from the eye and the levator palpebrae superioris (21), the muscle which acts on the eyelid, is raised. Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, published a series of anatomy plates using a colour mezzotint process which had first been developed by Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667-1741), in whose workshop Gautier d'Agoty had served as an assistant. In 1737, Le Blon obtained a copyright to publish a complete colour anatomy atlas, which never appeared. To Le Blon's process, which used the three colours of red, yellow and blue, Gautier d'Agoty added black and claimed the process to be his own invention. The plates are after dissections prepared by J. F. Duverney, a Parisian surgeon and demonstrator of anatomy and surgery at the Jardin du Roy. According to the "avertisement" the principle aim of the Myologie complette was the "facilitate the study of Anatomy for all sorts of people, above all students of medicine, surgery, painting and sculpture, all of those who, in a word, have the health and study of the human body as their subject."

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [Sieur Gautier], [1745 [-1746]]

Physical description

1 print : mezzotint, printed in colours ; image 40 x 32.3 cm

Lettering

Figure 2.e demontrée par M.r Duverney. Peinte et gravée en couleur par J. Gautier

References note

H.W. Singer, "Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jakob Christoffel Le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios," Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, 1917, 10: 177-199, 301-314; 1918, 11: 52-57, no. 2
Michèle Hébert, Edmond Pognon, Yves Bruand, and Yves Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome X, Paris 1968, pp. 53-54, Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty no. 33 ('(32-51). Pl. pour: Myologie complète en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composée de l'Essai et de la suite de l'Essai d'Anatomie, en tableaux imprimés. Ouvrage unique, utile et nécessaire aux étudiants et amateurs de cette science. — Paris, le Sieur Gautier, seul Graveur Privilégié du Roy, rue St-Honoré, au coin de la rue St-Nicaise; Quillau Père; Quillau Fils; Lamesle; 1746. … H.W. Singer, nos 1-20. … 33. Buste disséqué, de face, la tête tournée à dr. Au bord sup.: "Figure 2e. Démontrée [etc.]". H. 0m395 x L. 0m320.')
Florian Rodari, Anatomie de la couleur. L'invention de l'estampe en couleurs, exh. cat., Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1996, p. 114, no. 94
L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. 1945, repr. New York 1962, pp. 270-271
K. B. Roberts, and J. D. W. Tomlinson, The Fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustrations, Oxford 1992, pp. 523-528, pl. 110

Reference

Wellcome Collection 33381i

Reproduction note

This print was published in Gautier d'Agoty's Essai d'anatomie (Paris 1745), and then included in his Myologie complette published in Paris in the following year

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