Live auction - Lot 158
Early colour print
[French]
Le Gobius.
1757
Hammer price: €
220
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Colour etching and mezzotint, 18,6 x 13,1 cm, laid paper, signed "Gautier major sculp", numb. and dated "Tom. II. Plan. 10. Mars 1757", French text (some marg. spots).
Hinged at right edges, under passe-partout.
Early colour print of a fish, published in the "Observations périodiques sur la physique, l'histoire naturelle et les arts, ou Journal des sciences et arts" in March 1757. The Gautier-Dagoty family is famous for their early colour prints in the so-called "Tétrachromie" technique, incl. anatomical plates.
Ref. IFF 18e X.83.34.
Prov. Henri Ledoux (20th c.), French collector (stamp, L.4052).
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