JACQUES-FABIEN GAUTIER DAGOTY (1710-1781) Skeleton Plates Nos. XV and XVI connected, from a suite of 20 for the Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain... 1759. (Inv. Fonds Français 169 and 170). Engraving in black manner, printing in colors. Horizontal median folds and folds of printing. Some breaks and accidents in the edge of the small margins. 128 x 46 cm Provenance : Anne and Jacques Kerchache Collection. Exhibition and publication : Pierre Bergé & Associés sale of June 13, 2010, lot 141.

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