A standing figure showing the vertebral column, nerves, kidneys, heart and brain. Oil painting by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D'Agoty, 1764/1765.

  • Gautier Dagoty, 1717-1785.
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Similar to the composition of a print by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D'Agoty published in his Exposition anatomique des organes des sens, Paris 1776, pls. VI-VIII, inscribed "G D'Agoty Pere 1775" (partly reproduced by Rodari, loc. cit.)

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1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 203 x 65 cm

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References note

'Some panels by Jacques Gautier d'Agoty', The Lancet, 21 February 1914, p. 557
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
Florian Rodari, Anatomie de la couleur: l'invention de l'estampe en couleurs, [Paris] and Lausanne, 1996, p. 133 fig. 120

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Wellcome Collection 44571i

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