Edouard Gautier d'Agoty

c. 1783

Carlo Lasinio after Johann Ernst Heinsius

Associated Names
Carlo Lasinio

Artist, Italian, 1759 - 1838

Johann Ernst Heinsius

Artist After, German, 1740 - 1812

The image features a person sitting in a three-quarter position, facing slightly to the right and looking at the viewer. The individual has light skin and curly light-colored hair under a wide-brimmed brown hat. They wear a brown coat over a white shirt with a distinctive collar. The person holds quills in one hand. The background is a muted greenish tone with a textured appearance, and there is no visible jewelry on the person.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color mezzotint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.127

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Singer 1918, no. 444

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1962

  • Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 50.

Bibliography

1918

  • Singer, Hans Wolfgang. "Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jacob Christoffel Le Blons: mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. L'Admirals, und C. Lasinio." Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft 11(1918): no. 444

2004

  • Cassinelli, Paola. Carlo Lasinio incisioni. Florence, 2004: undesc.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image: Portrait d'Edouard Dagoty inventeur de la gravure en coleurs / nee a Paris l'An. 1745. mort a Flore[n]ce l'8 Mai 1783. / Pent par Kanchsuis [?] / Gravé, et desinee par de Lasinio / Imprime par Labrelis

Wikidata ID

Q65071124

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