The muscles of the human body, third layer, seen from the back; the figure balances a club with his right hand and stands before a wall of stone blocks. Colour mezzotint by L. Gautier d'Agoty after A. E. Gautier d'Agoty, 1773.

  • Gautier d'Agoty, A. E. (Arnaud Eloy), 1741-1771.
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[1773]
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view The muscles of the human body, third layer, seen from the back; the figure balances a club with his right hand and stands before a wall of stone blocks. Colour mezzotint by L. Gautier d'Agoty after A. E. Gautier d'Agoty, 1773.

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The muscles of the human body, third layer, seen from the back; the figure balances a club with his right hand and stands before a wall of stone blocks. Colour mezzotint by L. Gautier d'Agoty after A. E. Gautier d'Agoty, 1773. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Nancy] : [J. B. H. Leclerc], [1773]

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1 print : mezzotint, printed in colours

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A. E. Gautier . Dagoty pinxit . cum priv. ; L. Gautier Dagoty <sculp.> Bears plate no. : IX

References note

L. Choulant, History and bibiography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. 1945, repr. New York 1962, p. 273
Florian Rodari, Anatomie de la couleur. L'invention de l'estampe en couleurs, exh. cat., Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1996, pp. 137-138
H. W. Singer, "Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jakob Christoffel Le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios," Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, 1917, 10: 301-302

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Wellcome Collection 32621i

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The figure is based on a plate to B. S. Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, Leiden 1747, drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). It is the reverse of Albinus's third order of muscles, seen from the back

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