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.

1752

Jacques-Fabien Gautier Dagoty

Artist, French, 1716 - 1785

Medium

volume with letterpress text and 10 color mezzotints on laid paper (6 single-sheet color mezzotints and 4 large-scale color mezzotints each made from 3 attached sheets)
Credit Line

Rosenwald Print Purchase Fund and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

overall (from three plates on three joined sheets): 186.9 × 46 cm (73 9/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
page size: 56.5 × 38.5 cm (22 1/4 × 15 3/16 in.)
Accession

2002.40.1.b

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Jacques-Fabien Gautier Dagoty

1748

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.