La Pervenche de Java (The Perwinkle of Java, from the Collection of Usual, Curious, and Foreign Plants)

Prints and Drawings

1767

Jacques Fabien Gautier D’Agoty
French, 1710-1781

Gautier D’Agoty cited the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus as the source of his classification of plants in this volume. The printmaker had branched out from his usual subject of anatomy, and his coloring lacks some of his characteristic vibrancy. While there are areas of color added with a roulette (the tool used to create even patches of soft color in a mezzotint), the stippled background and etched detail predominate. The letterpress text describing this particular specimen has been pasted below the image. Gautier described himself on the title page as the “Pensioned Botanist & Anatomist of the King,” praising the French monarch Louis XV for his support of the sciences.

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Artist: Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty
Title: La Pervenche de Java (The Perwinkle of Java, from the Collection of Usual, Curious, and Foreign Plants)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1767
Medium: Etching,stipple, and roulette with handcoloring with typeset attachment on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed into image, upper left: "La Pervenche de Java/ sa de Madagscar." Lettered, below image: "La pervenche de Java/ Vinca Rofea, foliis oblango-ovais intergerrimis. Linn 4/ Cette pante se trouve...de France en 1752."
Dimensions: Plate: 29.3 × 19.3 cm (11 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Sheet: 42.7 × 28.7 cm (16 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.538
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Burnishing the Night: Baroque to Contemporary Mezzotints from the Collection”, February 21 - May 31, 2015

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