GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Arnaud Eloi, illustrator (c.1715-1785) – JADELOT, M. Cours complet d’anatomie, peint et grave... Pt. I Myologie [all published]. Nancy: Jean-Baptiste-Hyacinthe Leclerc, 1773. First edition. ‘These fifteen plates follow a scheme of progress, from the classical figures at the start, to skeletal hands and feet; or we can see it as a strip performance, from fully clad nudes by stages to muscle and bone. The delightful Apollo and Venus starting the theme were of course prepared in four mezzotint plates by Arnauld-Eloi, but painted by a Nancy artist, Jean Girardet who died five years later... They are certainly stunning examples from neo-classical France, reproduced with sophisticated art by the Gautier Dagoty process’ (Franklin, Early Colour Printing pp. 49-50). Garrison-Morton describes Gautier’s coloured mezzotints as striking. It had been intended that the complete work would consists of five parts, but only the first seems to have been published (Wellcome catalogue). Gautier d'Agoty (c.1715-85) was the assistant and successor to the master painter, engraver and pioneer of colour printing, Jacques Christophe le Blon (1670 - 1741). Le Blon had experimented with a three-colour process for colour-printing - following Newton's ground-breaking studies into the formation of colour - but it was Gautier d'Agoty who elevated the art to a higher level with the addition of a fourth black plate which gave the resultant images their superb tonal contrast and artistic depth. Choulant-Frank p. 273; Singer, Arnauld-Eloi Gautier d'A goty, 1-15. Large folio (640 x 495mm). pp. [iv], 25 of explanatory text, 15 coloured plates, two showing male and female bodies, 13 showing muscles and body structure, each body part numbered, all printed in four colour mezzotint (all the plates with faint vertical creasefolds, a few plates with small horizontal abrasions from this vertical fold, plate 5 with spot in image, plate 9 with very short repaired marginal tear just into image, a few plates with light creases). Contemporary marbled boards (rebacked with calf spine, extremities lightly rubbed).
GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Arnaud Eloi, illustrator (c.1715-1785) – JADELOT, M. Cours complet d’anatomie, peint et grave... Pt. I Myologie [all published]. Nancy: Jean-Baptiste-Hyacinthe Leclerc, 1773. First edition. ‘These fifteen plates follow a scheme of progress, from the classical figures at the start, to skeletal hands and feet; or we can see it as a strip performance, from fully clad nudes by stages to muscle and bone. The delightful Apollo and Venus starting the theme were of course prepared in four mezzotint plates by Arnauld-Eloi, but painted by a Nancy artist, Jean Girardet who died five years later... They are certainly stunning examples from neo-classical France, reproduced with sophisticated art by the Gautier Dagoty process’ (Franklin, Early Colour Printing pp. 49-50). Garrison-Morton describes Gautier’s coloured mezzotints as striking. It had been intended that the complete work would consists of five parts, but only the first seems to have been published (Wellcome catalogue). Gautier d'Agoty (c.1715-85) was the assistant and successor to the master painter, engraver and pioneer of colour printing, Jacques Christophe le Blon (1670 - 1741). Le Blon had experimented with a three-colour process for colour-printing - following Newton's ground-breaking studies into the formation of colour - but it was Gautier d'Agoty who elevated the art to a higher level with the addition of a fourth black plate which gave the resultant images their superb tonal contrast and artistic depth. Choulant-Frank p. 273; Singer, Arnauld-Eloi Gautier d'A goty, 1-15. Large folio (640 x 495mm). pp. [iv], 25 of explanatory text, 15 coloured plates, two showing male and female bodies, 13 showing muscles and body structure, each body part numbered, all printed in four colour mezzotint (all the plates with faint vertical creasefolds, a few plates with small horizontal abrasions from this vertical fold, plate 5 with spot in image, plate 9 with very short repaired marginal tear just into image, a few plates with light creases). Contemporary marbled boards (rebacked with calf spine, extremities lightly rubbed).
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