Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty

Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (6 September 1711, Marseille–25 January 1786, Paris) was a French anatomist, painter and printmaker.

[1] D'Agoty claimed that he proposed an improved method, using black, but was rebuffed by Le Blon.

[2] In any event, it was d'Agoty and his sons who popularized the process of color engraving in France.

He was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon.

[3] He is best remembered for collaborating with the physician and anatomist, Guichard Joseph Duverney to produce albums of anatomical charts: the Myologie complete en couleur et grandeur naturelle (1746).

Dissection of a woman's back
Muscles of the head