Portrait of Philippe Claude André de Thubières, Comte de Caylus

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n.d.

Jean B. A. Gautier d’Agoty
French, 1740-1786

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 painterly effect.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty
Title: Portrait of Philippe Claude André de Thubières, Comte de Caylus
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.: Artist's working dates 1760–1786
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.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dennis Adrian
Reference Number: 1969.16
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