Gautier d'Agoty - Bust Of A Flayed Man From The Front

Paris, Gautier, Quillau pre et fils, and Lamesle, 1746, 1 plate engraved on copper and printed in four-color process, Varnished proof, mounted on canvas and framed [dimensions inside the frame: 32 x 40 cm]. Explanation of the muscles of the inner ear, eyebrow, nose, eyelids and lips. Plate No. 1 of the complete Myology in color, bearing: "Figure 1e, demonstrated by Duverney. Painted and engraved in color by... Color print engraved in a regular and fine way, in mezzotint in four plates: the first, in mezzotint and with a burin, providing the black; the second, in mezzotint, providing the blue; the third, in mezzotint, providing the yellow; the fourth, in mezzotint and with a point, providing the red. "Myology remains without a doubt Gautier's masterpiece, the book to which he devotes the most care, both in the invention of his images and in the treatment of the technique" (Anatomy of Color). Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1716-1785) worked here based on the dissections made by the anatomist Joseph Guichard Duverney (1648-1730). He would carry out the dissections himself in the following years. Anatomy of Color, BNF, 1996, n° 93.