Jean Marot portrait - Mauban 1944 frontispiece

Jean Marot (1619 – 15 December 1679) was a French

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and engraver of architectural views. Little has survived of his own architectural work, but his engravings of the works of others, primarily those published in the volumes referred to as the ''Petit Marot'' (c. 1659) and the ''Grand Marot'' (1686), were highly esteemed by his contemporaries and remain, despite numerous inaccuracies and distortions, among the most important sources concerning architecture in France up to the early part of the reign of

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.Turpin 1996.

Early life and career

Born in Paris, he was the son of Girard Marot, a cabinetmaker of Netherlandish origin. Early in his career Jean Marot worked for the print publisher Israël Henriet, for whom he engraved architectural views in collaboration with Israël Silvestre, who may have provided sketches and engraved landscapes, and

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, who engraved figures and other embellishments. Among the architects whose designs Marot engraved (and interpreted) are

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, Claude Perrault, and Jules Hardouin-Mansart.Deutsch 2015, p. 14. Marot also engraved plates after

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, Palladio, and

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. Among the more notable buildings represented are the former Château de Richelieu, the Hôtel royal des Invalides, the

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in 1676, and the former

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in 1678.

Family

His brother Jean-Baptiste Marot (born 1632) was a painter. In 1659 Jean Marot married Charlotte Garbran, whose sister Anne was married to

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, a

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to Louis XIV. This relationship was to prove advantageous for Marot's further career. The marriage documents include an inventory of his belongings with important information on the engraved copper plates in his possession at that time. His son

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was an engraver, who worked with his father in Paris, until he was motivated by anti-Protestant laws to emigrate to the Netherlands, where he became the primary designer for William of Orange. Another son, Jean Marot II, likely worked as an engraver with his father, and later, after becoming a

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, as an architect in the

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(1686 to 1702). Jean Marot died in Paris.

Publications

If the likely publication date of the first edition is known, that is the one given. Many of the online copies linked here are later editions, which can vary in content. The list is not complete. * ''Diverses inventions nouvelles, pour des cheminées avec leurs ornemans de l'invention de Jean Marot'' (c. 1648) ** Gallica
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* ''Le Magnifique château de Richelieu...'' (Paris, . 1657 ** Gallica
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* Petit Marot – ''Recueil des plans, profils, et élévations de plusieurs palais, chasteaux, églises, sépultures, grotes et hostels bâtis dans Paris'' (Paris, . 1659 ** Gallica
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* ''Receuil des plus beaux portails de plusieures eglises de Paris'' (designs by , 1660) ** GRI
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* ''Description générale de l’hôtel des Invalides...'' (1683) f the 20 plates (not counting the frontispiece), 14 are by Marot, probably engraved in 1677; 2 additional plates were added in a later edition** INHA
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!-- --> * Grand Marot – 'L’Architecture françoise''(Paris, 686 ater editions usually include more plates, some engraved by his son, Daniel Marot republished as volume 4 of Jean Mariette's ''L’Architecture française'' (5 volumes, Paris, 1727)Deutsch 2015, pp. 131–133, 459–461. The engravings were probably made from 1648 up to the beginning of the 1670s. ** Gallica
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(rare example of the first edition) **

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Gallery

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's Château de Richelieu, engraved by Marot c. 1657, with embellishments by

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Notes

Bibliography

* Deutsch, Kristina (2011). "'Marot. Il se nommait Jean… '. Essai sur l’œuvre d’un graveur d’architecture du Grand Siècle", ''

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'', no. 236 (Autumn 2011), pp. 4–23. . * Deutsch, Kristina (2015). ''Jean Marot : Un graveur d'architecture à l'époque de Louis XIV''. Berlin: De Gruyter. . * Faucheux, Louis-Étienne (1857). ''Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre d'Israel Silvestre''. Paris: Vve Jules Renouard
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at Gallica. * Jal, Auguste (1867). ''Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire''. Paris: Henri Plon
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at Gallica. * Mauban, André (1944). ''Jean Marot: Architecte et Graveur Parisien''. Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire.
Catalog record
at HathiTrust. * Turpin, Adriana (1996). "Marot: (1) Jean Marot I", vol. 20, pp. 456–458, in ''

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'', edited by Jane Turner, reprinted with minor corrections in 1998. New York: Grove. . Also a
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External links

"Jean Marot"
at the

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Articles on publications by Jean Marot
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Architectura website
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Michaël Decrossas (2013) on the Petit Marot
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Frédérique Lemerle (2013) on Marot's ''Le magnifique chasteau de Richelieu...''
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Michaël Decrossas (2013) on Marot's ''Description générale de l’hôtel des Invalides...''
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