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Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1716–1785) was a French anatomist, painter and printmaker.
D'Agoty was born in 
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe
New York: Columbia University Press 2006
Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain, 1759 (digitized by Lund University Library)
18th-century French painters French male painters 1716 births 1785 deaths Artists from Marseille French anatomists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub
Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1716–1785) was a French anatomist, painter and printmaker.
D'Agoty was born in Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
, and became a pupil of the painter and engraver Jacob Christoph Le Blon
Jacob Christoph Le Blon, or Jakob Christoffel Le Blon, (2 May 1667 – 16 May 1741) was a painter and engraver from Frankfurt who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing, using an RYB color model which segued into the modern CMY ...
, with whom he became a rival for title of the invention of a method of a color-printing method based on etching and mezzotint engraving. He later exploited this process with his four sons: it is significant that he published a journal that included color printed images.
Gautier d'Agoty was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon
The Académie de Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
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, he teamed with the physician and anatomist Guichard Joseph Duverney
Joseph Guichard Duverney or Joseph-Guichard Du Verney (5 August 1648 – 10 September 1730) was a French anatomist known for his work in comparative anatomy and for his treatise on the ear. The fracture of the iliac wing of the pelvis is some ...
to produce anatomical albums. Together with his son, , they produced a French Gallery and universal gallery of portraits of famous men and women, which only appeared in the first deliveries in 1770 and 1772. D'Agoty died in Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
.
References
* Philip Ball, ''Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2001, p. 276. * Bamber Gascoigne, ''Milestones in colour printing'' (1457-1859), Cambridge University press, 1997, p. 12 * John Gorton, ''A General Biographical Dictionary'', Henry G. Bohn, London, vol II, 1851. * Arthur M. Hind, ''A History of Engraving and Etching. From the 15th Century to the year 1914''. Being the Third and Fully Revised Edition of "A Short History of Engraving and Etching", Dover, New York, 1963, p. 309. * Sarah Lowengard, 'Jacques-Fabien Gautier, or Gautier d'AgotyThe Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe
New York: Columbia University Press 2006
Online sources
Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain, 1759 (digitized by Lund University Library)
18th-century French painters French male painters 1716 births 1785 deaths Artists from Marseille French anatomists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub