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The Anatomical Angel - Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty Art Print

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Velvety matte fine art paper (warm white, archival-grade, 200gsm) with bold, vibrant, non-toxic pigment inks. High-definition print lab techniques give you sharper details, deeper saturation and true-to-life tones. While the matte surface keeps glare down and archival-grade materials mean the colors you fall for stay vivid for decades.

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Your print arrives framed and ready to hang, so it goes straight from the box to your wall.

Chevron cut wooden frames make a timeless statement in three distinctive colors: black, white and natural. Each frame is made of sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine. And your artwork is protected behind ultra-clear perspex glaze that’s lighter than glass and shatter-resistant.

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Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, hand-stretched and finely textured, gives every detail depth and precision, catching light and color with striking clarity. While a precisely measured floating frame leaves a slim gap around the canvas, so it seems to hover with a sleek, gallery-worthy effect. Finished with your choice of frame color — black, white or natural — made from sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine.

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Forget 4 color CMYK. Giclée layers up to 12 — alive with deeper shadows, richer highlights and multidimensional contrasts. Pro-lab printing process helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 years. And the neo-pigment, water-based inks are 100% non-hazardous and toxin-free.

About the Artwork

She holds a Rococo sitter’s pose, shoulder dropped and profile offered. Then the eye travels down. Dissection of a Woman’s Back opens under her nape where a gown should fasten, and carmine muscle slides off both shoulder blades with the weight of unlaced brocade.

L’Ange anatomique wears its muscle outward. Jacques Fabien Gautier Dagoty engraved the trapezius folded aside in two rust red sheets, and the larger one flares off her left shoulder with the lift of a wing mid-beat.

Four copper plates built her. Each was rocked to a velvet burr and inked in a single pigment, a color mezzotint method Gautier Dagoty carried out of Le Blon’s workshop and guarded under royal privilege. The anatomist Duverney prepared the cadaver for the Myologie complète. Ivory ribs ladder down her opened trunk, set against an olive-umber ground, toward flesh-toned hips where the scalpel stopped.

Her chignon stays pinned under an ash-blue ribbon. The Surrealists adopted her two centuries later, and the nickname The Anatomical Angel has clung to this écorché ever since. Enlightenment anatomical illustration rarely kept its manners this well. This medical art print turns its back on the room, skinned to the ribs and glancing over one shoulder.

Origin Story

Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1711–1786) was the French anatomist, painter, and printmaker who helped carry colour engraving into France. Born in Marseille, he trained under Jacob Christoph Le Blon, inventor of the first full-colour printing process, then claimed his own improved four-plate method using black. With his sons, he popularised the technique and published a colour-illustrated journal. Elected to the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon, he is best remembered for collaborating with the anatomist Guichard Joseph Duverney on the Myologie complète en couleur et grandeur naturelle (1746), whose tendons and veins stand out in "horrible precision."

With his sons, he also produced the "French Gallery" and "Universal Gallery" of notable portraits (1770, 1772). He died in Paris.

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Canvas stretched over FSC®-certified, knot-free European pine. Milled with a curved profile to prevent pressure marks and surface cracks.

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