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Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (6 September 1711,
''The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe''
New York: Columbia University Press 2006
Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (6 September 1711, Marseille
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–25 January 1786, Paris
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) was a French anatomist, painter and printmaker.
Life and work
His studies began as a pupil of the painter and engraver Jacob Christoph Le Blon, the inventor of the first engraving and printing process that involved the use of colors (blue, yellow and red).Roger Portalis, "La gravure en couleurs", in: ''Gazette des beaux-arts : courrier européen de l'art et de la curiosité'', 1888, pp.441-457 D'Agoty claimed that he proposed an improved method, using black, but was rebuffed by Le Blon. In any event, it was d'Agoty and his sons who popularized the process of color engraving in France. For many years, they published a journal with color illustrations. He was elected a member of theAcadémie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon
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. He is best remembered for collaborating with the physician and anatomist, Guichard Joseph Duverney to produce albums of anatomical charts: the ''Myologie complete en couleur et grandeur naturelle'' (1746). The tendons and veins were described as standing out in "horrible precision".
Together with his sons, Jean-Baptiste
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Persons
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, Honoré-Louis, Jean-Fabien, Édouard and , he produced a "French Gallery" and a "Universal Gallery" of portraits of famous men and women, which were published in 1770 and 1772. Arthur Mayger 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.
References
Further reading
* Philip Ball, ''Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2001, p. 276. * Sarah Lowengard, "Jacques-Fabien Gautier, or Gautier d'Agoty", In''The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe''
New York: Columbia University Press 2006
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* 18th-century French painters French male painters 1711 births 1785 deaths Painters from Marseille French anatomists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub