Apr 28, 2022 - Sale 2602

Sale 2602 - Lot 206

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JEAN-BAPTISTE PILLEMENT (AFTER)
Cahier de Six Noeuds de Rubans.

Complete set of 6 color crayon manner engravings printed in red and black, 1770. Each approximately 245x165 mm; 9 3/4x6 inches, small margins. Engraved by Louis Gautier-Dagoty and Arnaud-Eloi Gautier-Dagoty. Published by Leviez, Paris. Very good impressions of these extremely scarce Rococo ornamental engravings.

Louis Gautier-Dagoty (1746-after 1787) and Arnaud-Eloi Gautier-Dagoty (1741-1771) were the sons of the notable French anatomist, painter and printmaker Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1716–1785), a rival with his teacher, Jacob Christoph Le Blon, for title of the invention of a method of an color-printing method based on etching and mezzotint engraving.