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GAMELIN, JACQUES. 1738-1803. Nouveau recueil d'ostéologie et de myologie, dessiné d'après nature.... Toulouse: J.F. Desclassan, 1779.
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GAMELIN, JACQUES. 1738-1803.
Nouveau recueil d'ostéologie et de myologie, dessiné d'après nature.... Toulouse: J.F. Desclassan, 1779.
2 parts in one volume, broadsheets (557 x 368 mm). Title-pages for each part with etched vignette, 2 etched frontispieces, etched portrait of Baron de Puymaurin with a dedication by Gamelin below, 10 large etched vignettes in text, 82 etched and engraved plates, including 11 preceded by outline plates keyed to the text. 20th century quarter calf and marbled boards. Rubbed, first title page tipped to stub at gutter, outside edges trimmed, some into plate marks, a few repaired tears and holes, scattered staining and spotting.
FIRST EDITION. "The plates in this work are more fantastic than any other anatomy, suggesting the work of Goya, who may have known or studied with Gamelin since Gamelin taught in Rome during the time Goya was there" (Garrison-Morton-Norman). Jacques Gamelin "is acknowledged as one of the 'little masters' of French eighteenth-century painting. The plates for his anatomical atlas, issued in an edition of only 200 copies, were prepared from drawings made at his own dissection facility; they are distinct from the plates of other works of its type, being larger, more artistically varied, and more expressive and fantastic in their conception. Gamelin's plates show a constant interplay between the artistic and the anatomic: emblematic images in the seventeenth-century tradition, vignettes in the coquettish eighteenth-century manner, and classic studies of figures in repose and movement vie with straightforward 'medical' depictions of bones and muscles" (Norman). Although all the plates were designed by Gamelin, and 18 of them bear his signature, most were executed by Jacques Lavalle (and a few by Martin). Blake, p 165; Choulant-Frank, p 352; Garrison-Morton-Norman 401.1; Norman 872; Waller 3404.
2 parts in one volume, broadsheets (557 x 368 mm). Title-pages for each part with etched vignette, 2 etched frontispieces, etched portrait of Baron de Puymaurin with a dedication by Gamelin below, 10 large etched vignettes in text, 82 etched and engraved plates, including 11 preceded by outline plates keyed to the text. 20th century quarter calf and marbled boards. Rubbed, first title page tipped to stub at gutter, outside edges trimmed, some into plate marks, a few repaired tears and holes, scattered staining and spotting.
FIRST EDITION. "The plates in this work are more fantastic than any other anatomy, suggesting the work of Goya, who may have known or studied with Gamelin since Gamelin taught in Rome during the time Goya was there" (Garrison-Morton-Norman). Jacques Gamelin "is acknowledged as one of the 'little masters' of French eighteenth-century painting. The plates for his anatomical atlas, issued in an edition of only 200 copies, were prepared from drawings made at his own dissection facility; they are distinct from the plates of other works of its type, being larger, more artistically varied, and more expressive and fantastic in their conception. Gamelin's plates show a constant interplay between the artistic and the anatomic: emblematic images in the seventeenth-century tradition, vignettes in the coquettish eighteenth-century manner, and classic studies of figures in repose and movement vie with straightforward 'medical' depictions of bones and muscles" (Norman). Although all the plates were designed by Gamelin, and 18 of them bear his signature, most were executed by Jacques Lavalle (and a few by Martin). Blake, p 165; Choulant-Frank, p 352; Garrison-Morton-Norman 401.1; Norman 872; Waller 3404.