GAUTIER DAGOTY ARNAUD ÉLOI Color mezzotint of the muscles an

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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, ARNAUD-ÉLOI. Color mezzotint of the muscles and bones of the hand, from Nicolas Jadelot's Cours Complet d'Anatomie. 555x401 mm, with good margins; marginal soiling outside image, minor repairs in blank lower margin on verso, blank lower outer corner restored; hinged to mat. [Nancy, 1773]

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Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty and his sons refined the color mezzotint technique invented by Jacob Christoph Le Blon and employed it primarily for the depiction of anatomical subjects. The last large-scale examples by a member of the family were the illustrations for Nicolas Jadelot's 1773 anatomical atlas by Arnauld-Éloi, second son of Jacques-Fabien. Choulant-Frank, page 273; Franklin, A Catalogue of Early Color Printing, pages 49-50 ("among the finest plates of any sort achieved by the Gautier family").