Carlo LASINIO, after Johann Ernst HEINSIUS - Lot 11

Carlo LASINIO, after Johann Ernst HEINSIUS (Treviso 1759 - Pisa 1838) Portrait of Edouard Gautier Dagoty Pastel, oval 61 x 50 cm Provenance : Collection Pierre Edouard Gautier - Dagoty (1775 - 1871), son of the model ; Collection Emilie Cuginaud (1820 - 1887), née Gautier - Dagoty, her daughter; Collection Marguerite Jeanne Clara Bouchard (1844 - 1921), née Cuginaud, daughter; Collection Antoine Bouchard (1872 - 1939), his son; Since remained in the family. Our pastel is probably a variant of the portrait painted by Johann Ernst Heinsius (see Ch. Oulmont, J. E. Heinsius 1740 - 1812 Peintre de Mesdames de France, Paris, 1913, no. 50, reproduced on pl. 29). Lasinio was a pupil of Dagoty in Florence, where the latter died in 1783. His son Louis Dagoty is said to have collaborated with Lasinio on a print of Heinsius's portrait. Lasinio began his career as a painter in Venice. He moved to Florence in 1778, and from then on devoted himself to engraving, which he was to teach at the Florence Academy from 1800 onwards. In 1812, he was appointed curator of Pisa's Camposanto, whose frescoes were in danger of falling into ruin. The engravings he published of these frescoes had a considerable influence on the Pre-Raphaelites. In addition to his series of engravings reproducing the Old Masters, Lasinio also produced a number of original works, including portraits of famous Italians. From a dynasty of artists, Arnaud Eloi dit Edouard Gautier Dagoty ( Paris 1744 - Florence 1783), was the son of Jacques Fabien Dagoty, who was an engraver, anatomist and botanist. Edouard Dagoty continued his father's work in anatomy and engraving, perfecting the technique of color engraving that his father had helped invent.