The Blank Gallery

New works · 29 October 2026

A new collection: Anatomy

The anatomy books of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries hired real artists, and it shows. Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty's Anatomical Angel (1746) is a colour mezzotint of a woman's back, dissected and posed like a portrait. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus set his skeletons in front of Clara, a rhinoceros who toured Europe in the 1740s and 1750s.

Five plates come from Govard Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis (1685), drawn by Gerard de Lairesse with the drapery and still-life calm of Dutch painting. Also new in The Night Sky: Trouvelot's Mars, and Mare Humorum on the Moon.

This week's works

Every work links to its print sizes.
The Planet MarsThe Planet MarsÉtienne Léopold Trouvelot Mare HumorumMare HumorumÉtienne Léopold Trouvelot The Anatomical AngelThe Anatomical AngelJacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty Clara the Rhinoceros, Table IVClara the Rhinoceros, Table IVBernhard Siegfried Albinus Clara the Rhinoceros, Table VIIIClara the Rhinoceros, Table VIIIBernhard Siegfried Albinus Model of a Human SkeletonModel of a Human SkeletonGerard de Lairesse Study of a SkullStudy of a SkullGerard de Lairesse Study of the Thigh BoneStudy of the Thigh BoneGerard de Lairesse Study of the Back of the HeadStudy of the Back of the HeadGerard de Lairesse Study of the Right FootStudy of the Right FootGerard de Lairesse
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