Jean Mariette (22 June 1660 – 19 September 1742) was a French engraver and print dealer and publisher. He was the father of

Pierre-Jean Mariette Pierre-Jean Mariette (7 May 1694 – 10 September 1774) was a collector of and dealer in old master prints, a renowned connoisseur, especially of prints and drawings, and a chronicler of the careers of French Italian and Flemish artists. He w ...

.Walsh 1996.

Ancestry and early life

Jean Mariette was born in Paris,Benezit 2006. the son of Pierre II Mariette (1634–1716) and grandson of Pierre I Mariette (1596–1657), both wealthy print publishers. He studied drawing, painting, and engraving with his brother-in-law

Jean-Baptiste Corneille Jean-Baptiste Corneille (2 December 1649 – 12 April 1695) was a French painting, painter, etching, etcher, and engraving, engraver. Biography Corneille was born in Paris between 1646 and 1649. He was the youngest son of Michel Corneille the El ...

, but after

Charles Le Brun Charles Le Brun (baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of ...

saw some of his engravings and advised him to focus on that, he stopped painting. After his father's death, he took over one of the family's print businesses, the 'Librairie des Colonnes d'Hercule', whereas his older brother, Pierre-Joseph Mariette (1656–1729), inherited the business at the sign of 'L'Espérance'. Both were on the

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Print publishing

Over the course of his career he published almost 900 prints, including 35 reproductions of paintings by artists such as

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ...

Domenico Zampieri Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoema ...

, Charles Le Brun,

Michel Corneille the Younger Michel Corneille the Younger (1642, Paris – 16 August 1708, Gobelins manufactory at Paris) was a French painter, etcher and engraver. Life Corneille was born in Paris, the son of an artist, Michel Corneille the Elder of Orléans, and on this ...

Louis Chéron Louis Chéron (2 September 1660 – 26 May 1725) was a French painter, illustrator and art tutor. Life Chéron was born in Paris, into a French Protestant family of artists (his father being the miniaturist and engraver Henri Chéron and his el ...

, Antoine Dieu,

Guido Reni Guido Reni (; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious ...

, A. Caracci,

Sébastien Bourdon Sébastien Bourdon (2 February 1616 – 8 May 1671) was a French painter and engraver. His ''chef d'œuvre'' is ''The Crucifixion of St. Peter'' made for the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, Notre Dame. Biography Bourdon was born i ...

, Giovanni Contarini, and

Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh c ...

. In 1727 Jean Mariette published three volumes under the title ''L'Architecture françoise'', a collection of

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, and cross sections of French buildings, which is one of the most important sources concerning

French classical architecture French Baroque architecture, sometimes called French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–43), Louis XIV (1643–1715) and Louis XV (1715–74). It was preceded by French Renaissance architecture and Ma ...

.Mauban 1946.Mariette 1727; 1927–1929. According to the architectural historian

Emil Kaufmann Emil Kaufmann (1891 in Vienna – 1953 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) was an Austrian art and architecture historian. He was the son of Max Kaufmann (died 1902), a businessman, and Friederike Baumwald (Kaufmann) (born 1862). Kaufmann is best known for ...

, the majority of these prints were designed and engraved by

Jacques-François Blondel Jacques-François Blondel (8 January 1705 – 9 January 1774) was an 18th-century French architect and teacher. After running his own highly successful school of architecture for many years, he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the Acad ...

(who published his own ''Architecture françoise'' in 1752–1756), although other engravers, including

Pierre Lepautre Pierre Lepautre may refer to: * Pierre Lepautre (1648–1716), French engraver, who played a role in the development of rococo * Pierre Lepautre (1659–1744), French sculptor {{Hndis, Lepautre, Pierre ...

, , and Claude Lucas, and other designers, such as Delamonce, J. M. Chevotet, P. C. Prevostel, and

Pineau Pineau des Charentes, (Pineau Charentais, or simply Pineau) is a regional aperitif of western France, made in the départements of Charente, Charente-Maritime, and (to a lesser extent) Dordogne. While popular within its region of production, i ...

, were also involved.Kaufmann 1949. A fourth volume, published the same year under the same title, was a reedition of the '' Grand Marot'', and a fifth volume in a larger format was published in 1738.

Notes

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'', 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner. New York: Grove. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Mariette, Pierre-Jean 17th-century French engravers 18th-century French engravers French art collectors Artists from Paris 1660 births 1742 deaths