Portrait of Edouard Dagoty
After 1783
Medium
Color mezzotint, with traces of scraping on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
49.9 × 43.3 cm (19 11/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
mezzotint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41072
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This portrait of Edouard Gautier D’Agoty attests to the successful self-promotion of his father, the printmaker Jacques Gautier D’Agoty, who added the more refined surname D’Agoty late in his career. The text on the ledge incorrectly notes that the sitter, Gautier D’Agoty’s third son, had invented the color mezzotint medium, when in actuality it was the elder Gautier D’Agoty who had learned the process from Jacob Christoph Le Blon. Gautier D’Agoty nevertheless justified his own role in the devel...
About the Artist
Carlo Lasinio · 1759–1838
Comment on works: copper engraver