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Anatomie des parties de la génération de l’homme et de la femme
Paris, 1773. Colored mezzotint. National Library of Medicine.
Jacques Fabien Gautier D’Agoty
(1717-1785)
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The grotesquerie of subject matter, stiffness of the figure, and eccentric arrangement of body parts make for a characteristic dreaminess that eerily anticipates 20th-century modernism.
