The Anatomy Theatre

Myologie Complette en Couleur · 1746

The Anatomical Angel

Gautier d'Agoty printed the body in full colour when no one else could — luminous mezzotints where dissection turns, unnervingly, into the sublime.

The plates in The Anatomical Angel

The Anatomical Angel — L’Ange Anatomique, from Myologie Complette en Couleur, Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, 1746

Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty · 1746

The Anatomical Angel

A dissection that looks like a winged figure.

L’Ange Anatomique · 1746
Anatomy of the Head — from Anatomie de la Tête, Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, 1748

Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty · 1748

Anatomy of the Head

The dissected head, in luminous colour.

Anatomie de la Tête · 1748