A standing dissected man showing the viscera and blood vessels, with a separate figure of the left arm. Oil painting by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D'Agoty, 1764/1765.

  • Gautier Dagoty, 1717-1785.
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44569i
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Description

In most respects, the same composition as in a print by Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty published in his Anatomie des parties de la génération de l'homme et de la femme ... jointe a l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, e a ce qui concerne la grossesse et les accouchemens, Paris: J.B. Brunet & Demonville, 1773, first folding plate (numbered "Pl. IV" in mistake for Pl. I in the top half and "Plan. II" in the bottom half), inscribed (top) G.D.P. 1771" (i.e. Gautier d'Agoty pinxit 1771), and (bottom)"Ageologie [sic] ingectée et gravée en couleur par G.d'Agoty pere 1773". The painting omits some of the subsidiary figures in the print

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 200 x 65 cm

Contributors

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/36/81
Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/36/77

References note

A. Bouchard, 'Une famille d'artistes français du XVIIIe siècle: les Gautier d'Agoty', Mémoires de la Commission des Antiquités du Département de la Côte d'Or, vol. 21, 1936-1937, pp. 135-140
'Some panels by Jacques Gautier d'Agoty', The Lancet, 21 February 1914, p. 557

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44569i

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