![CLOQUET, Jules Germain (1790-1883). Anatomie de l'homme, ou description et figures lithographes de toutes les parties du corps humain. Paris: Imprimerie lithographique de C. de Lasteyrie, Imprimerie de Rignoux [Vols. 1-2], Imprimerie lithographique de M. Engelmann et Compagnie, chez M. le Comte de Lasteyrie, Imprimerie de A. Belin [Vols. 3-5], 1821-1831.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/NYR/2007_NYR_01885_0149_000(023507).jpg?w=1)
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CLOQUET, Jules Germain (1790-1883). Anatomie de l'homme, ou description et figures lithographes de toutes les parties du corps humain. Paris: Imprimerie lithographique de C. de Lasteyrie, Imprimerie de Rignoux [Vols. 1-2], Imprimerie lithographique de M. Engelmann et Compagnie, chez M. le Comte de Lasteyrie, Imprimerie de A. Belin [Vols. 3-5], 1821-1831.
5 volumes, 2o (507 x 347 mm). 300 lithographed plates by Lasteyrie and Engelmann (scattered light foxing, 176/2 in vol. 5 torn). Contemporary green quarter morocco and green boards, gilt border (light rubbing to edges). Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (his sale part III, Christie's New York, 29 October 1998, lot 982).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ANATOMICAL ATLAS TO BE PRINTED USING ALOIS SENEFELDER'S NEW METHOD OF LITHOGRAPHY, which was just beginning to be applied commercially when this work began publication in 1821. More accurately Cloquet's Anatomie de l'Homme should be described as the first major anatomical atlas to begin publication using lithography, since, as we learned earlier in this catalogue, to compete with the engraved version, which was expected to begin distribution in Italy in 1823, the Comte de Lasteyrie and Francesco Antonmarchi began production of the pirated, lithographed version of Mascagni's Anatomia Universa in 1822, issued the first part in 1823 and completed it by 1826, five years before the completion of Cloquet's atlas, and seven years before the completion of the engraved version of Anatomia Universa.
In planning his atlas Cloquet also intended to exploit the faster production speed resulting from this versatile new technology; however, no matter how fast the plates could be drawn on stone, the publication in fascicles or parts was inevitably delayed by time required to do the dissections and prepare the original drawings. Jules began his career as an apprentice to his father, J.B.A. Cloquet, an artist and engraver and art teacher, and went to medical school after working as a wax-modeler for the Paris Faculty of Medicine. Jules illustrated his own doctoral thesis on hernia, and what was more unusual, he also drew the plates on stone for the lithographic reproductions in the version of his thesis that was commercially published in 1819. For this large anatomical atlas Jules and his artist sister, Lise, created the drawings for approximately 150 plates that were original for the work. The remaining 150 plates not after drawings by the Cloquets were copied from publications by William Hunter, Soemmerring, Tiedemann, Haller, Walter, Mascagni, Charles Bell, Scarpa, and others. There were more than 3000 separate figures on the 300 plates in the complete atlas. The art was drawn on stone by Haincelin, Feillet and Dubourjal. The lithographs were printed at the presses of de Lasteyrie, Godefroy Engelmann (the other pioneer lithographer in France), and Brigeaut, a workman at de Lasteyrie's press who set up his own shop. Remarkably, Choulant-Frank was not aware of this work. Garrison-Morton 409; Norman 490; Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 535-36; Twyman, Lithography 1800-1850 pp. 50-56, Weber, History of Lithography pp. 51-54. (5)
5 volumes, 2
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ANATOMICAL ATLAS TO BE PRINTED USING ALOIS SENEFELDER'S NEW METHOD OF LITHOGRAPHY, which was just beginning to be applied commercially when this work began publication in 1821. More accurately Cloquet's Anatomie de l'Homme should be described as the first major anatomical atlas to begin publication using lithography, since, as we learned earlier in this catalogue, to compete with the engraved version, which was expected to begin distribution in Italy in 1823, the Comte de Lasteyrie and Francesco Antonmarchi began production of the pirated, lithographed version of Mascagni's Anatomia Universa in 1822, issued the first part in 1823 and completed it by 1826, five years before the completion of Cloquet's atlas, and seven years before the completion of the engraved version of Anatomia Universa.
In planning his atlas Cloquet also intended to exploit the faster production speed resulting from this versatile new technology; however, no matter how fast the plates could be drawn on stone, the publication in fascicles or parts was inevitably delayed by time required to do the dissections and prepare the original drawings. Jules began his career as an apprentice to his father, J.B.A. Cloquet, an artist and engraver and art teacher, and went to medical school after working as a wax-modeler for the Paris Faculty of Medicine. Jules illustrated his own doctoral thesis on hernia, and what was more unusual, he also drew the plates on stone for the lithographic reproductions in the version of his thesis that was commercially published in 1819. For this large anatomical atlas Jules and his artist sister, Lise, created the drawings for approximately 150 plates that were original for the work. The remaining 150 plates not after drawings by the Cloquets were copied from publications by William Hunter, Soemmerring, Tiedemann, Haller, Walter, Mascagni, Charles Bell, Scarpa, and others. There were more than 3000 separate figures on the 300 plates in the complete atlas. The art was drawn on stone by Haincelin, Feillet and Dubourjal. The lithographs were printed at the presses of de Lasteyrie, Godefroy Engelmann (the other pioneer lithographer in France), and Brigeaut, a workman at de Lasteyrie's press who set up his own shop. Remarkably, Choulant-Frank was not aware of this work. Garrison-Morton 409; Norman 490; Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 535-36; Twyman, Lithography 1800-1850 pp. 50-56, Weber, History of Lithography pp. 51-54. (5)