A pregnant woman, dissected, lateral view, with arms upraised, accompanied by separate sections of the body. Oil painting by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D'Agoty, 1764/1765.

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view A pregnant woman, dissected, lateral view, with arms upraised, accompanied by separate sections of the body. Oil painting by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D'Agoty, 1764/1765.

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A pregnant woman, dissected, lateral view, with arms upraised, accompanied by separate sections of the body. Oil painting by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D'Agoty, 1764/1765. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The standing figure bears some resemblance to the standing woman in the print of two women (one standing, one reclining) by Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty published in his Anatomie des parties de la génération de l'homme et de la femme ... jointe a l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, e a ce qui concerne la grossesse et les accouchemens, Paris: J.B. Brunet & Demonville, 1773, third folding plate (numbered "Plan. V" in the top half and "Plan. VI" in the bottom half), inscribed "La femme sur la fin de sa grossesse et la femme en travail disséquées mortes en cet état, et gravées en couleur par G. Dagoty pere anatomiste pensioné du Roi 1773. On a donné à ces figures un air de vie pour oter un aspect plus désagréable". There are some variations, however: in the painting the arms are raised, in the print they are not

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1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 203 x 65 cm

References note

'Some panels by Jacques Gautier d'Agoty', The Lancet, 21 February 1914, p. 557
A. Bouchard, 'Une famille d'artistes français du XVIIIe siècle: les Gautier d'Agoty', Mémoires de la Commission des Antiquités du Département de la Côte d'Or, vol. 21, 1936-1937, pp. 135-140

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Wellcome Collection 44574i

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