Gautier d'Agoty - Dissected Head And Shoulder

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].
Plate VII of the Myologie complette in colors: muscles of the neck, particular muscles of the vertebrae and the neck, muscles of the scapula and the head. "Here the head is seen posteriorly (...), and we see the straight muscles and the obliques uncovered in their true situations, forming between them a kind of symmetrical bouquet; we also see the vertebrals of the neck uncovered" (Myologie complette). Color print engraved in a regular and fine way, in mezzotint in four plates: the first, in mezzotint and burin, providing black; the second, in mezzotint, providing blue; the third, in mezzotint, providing yellow; the fourth, in mezzotint and point, bringing the red. "Myology remains without a doubt Gautier's masterpiece, the book to which he devotes the most care, both in the invention of its 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, no. 97.