Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838) Portrait of Edouard... Lot 48

Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838) Portrait of Edouard Dagoty, inventor of color engraving. 1783. Black Manner after Heinsius. 425 x 495. Printed in colors. Very nice proof on laid paper, largely enhanced with gouache (yellow in the tablet, black, blue, red, brown... in the subject). Small margins of 10 to 20 mm, with a few small restorations, tiny snags at the edges and a trace of red glue in the upper left corner. Some foxing, especially on the left hand of the model and on his collar. Frame. Lasinio renders here the portrait of his master and friend, Édouard Gautier-Dagoty. Like him, he experimented with the techniques of engraving in color in the black manner and taught engraving for more than fifty years at the Academy of Florence. Like the Gautier-Dagoty family, he contributed to the growth and development of the black manner in colour by producing numerous plates, following in the footsteps of Jakob Christoph Le Blon who had laid the foundations in London in the 1720s and 1730s, under the influence of Newton's research on optics.