Portrait of Philippe Claude André de Thubières, Comte de Caylus
Medium
Color mezzotint on paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.6 × 19.2 cm (9 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 × 22.8 cm (12 1/16 × 9 in.); 25.5 × 20.7 cm (10 1/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
Classification
mezzotint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
30940
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Jean Baptiste André Gautier Dagoty was a member of an artistic family; he, his father, and his brothers were all printmakers. His father, Jacques Fabien, at one time assisted the printmaker Jakob Christoffel Le Blon, whose rival he later became. All the Gautier-Dagotys used Le Blon' s method of printing mezzotints from multiple plates to achieve varied color effects, as is demonstrated in this portrait, printed in four colors on plates that had been rocked extensively to create a rich and painte...