Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty [SEP] date of death
Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty
Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1716–1785) was a French anatomist, painter and printmaker.
D'Agoty was born in Marseille, and became a pupil of the painter and engraver Jacob Christoph Le Blon, with whom he became a rival for title of the invention of a method of an color-printing method based on etching and mezzotint engraving. He later exploited this process with his four sons: it is significant that he published a journal that included color printed images.
Gautier d'Agoty was elected a member
Janinet and Philibert-Louis Debucourt, whose "La Promenade Publique" is often thought the masterpiece of the style. Another branch of this French movement mostly used mezzotint for tone and came to specialize in illustrating medical textbooks. This was at first led by Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667–1741), who very nearly anticipated modern CMYK colour separation and then carried on by his pupil Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty and later members of the d'Agoty family until around 1800.
Goya, maker of incontestably the greatest prints using aquatint, probably learned