"Anatomie de la tête" and "Anatomie générale des viscères"

1748 / 1752

Jacques-Fabien Gautier Dagoty

Artist, French, 1716 - 1785

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with letterpress text and 10 color mezzotints consisting of 18 sheets; 12 sheets attached in groups of 3 to create 4 large illustrations, printed in black, yellow, red, and blue inks

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Print Purchase Fund and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 76.5 × 56.5 × 2.5 cm (30 1/8 × 22 1/4 × 1 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.40.1.a-b

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Associated Artworks

Anatomie de la tête, en tableaux imprimés (Anatomy of the Head, in Printed Paintings)

Jacques-Fabien Gautier Dagoty

1748

Anatomie générale des viscères en situation, de grandeur et couleur naturelle, avec l'angéologie, et de la neurologie de chaque partie du corps humain (A General Anatomy of the Viscera, in Situation, of Size and Natural Color, together with an Angiology and Neurology of Every Part of the Human Body.

Jacques-Fabien Gautier Dagoty

1752

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 3, as Skeleton by Jacques-Fabien Gautier Dagoty.

Bibliography

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 3.

Inscriptions

printed label on front cover: ANATOMIE DE LA TÊTE / EN TABLEAUX IMPRIMÉS / QUI REPRÉSENTENT AU NATUREL / LE CERVEAU / SOUS DIFFÉRENTES COUPES / ANATOMIE GÉNÉRALE / DES VISCERES / DE L’ANGÉOLOGIE ET DE LA NÉVROLOGIE / DU CORPS HUMAIN

Markings

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