Neck and Face Muscles, plate three from Myologie complete
Medium
Color mezzotint with touches of engraving on cream laid paper, varnished
Dimensions
Image/plate: 40 × 32 cm (15 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 56 × 39.2 cm (22 1/16 × 15 7/16 in.)
Classification
mezzotint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149493
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Gautier D’Agoty used specimens first prepared by the former court surgeon Joseph-Guichard Duverney (1648–1730) for this book of human musculature that combines drama and scientific accuracy. Gautier signed Duverney’s name on his completed mezzotint plates to acknowledge the surgeon as the inventor of these anatomical compositions. Duverney likely prepared the dissected specimens with wax both to intensify their color and increase their longevity. The varnish Gautier used to turn his prints into ...