Jean Marot (architect)

File:Israel Silvestre, Palais d'Orléans - Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg's Palais du Luxembourg in 1649, as engraved by Marot in collaboration with Israël Silvestre and Stefano della Bella ]]

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 Stefano della Bella, who engraved figures and other embellishments.Faucheux 1857, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5656304c/f106.image.r=marot pp. 101, etc]; Mauban 1944, pp. 56–61 "Chapter IV: Oeuvre d'Israel Silvestre"; Deutsch 2015, pp. 82–83. Among the architects whose designs Marot engraved (and interpreted) are Gianlorenzo Bernini, Salomon de Brosse, Jacques Lemercier, François Mansart, Louis Le Vau, Claude Perrault, and Jules Hardouin-Mansart.Deutsch 2015, p. 14. Marot also engraved plates after Vignola, Scamozzi, Palladio, and Philibert de L'Orme. Among the more notable buildings represented are the former Château de Richelieu, the Hôtel royal des Invalides, the Louvre in 1676, and the former Château de Madrid in 1678.

His brother Jean-Baptiste Marot (born 1632) was a painter. In 1659 Jean Marot married Charlotte Garbran, whose sister Anne was married to Pierre Gole, a cabinetmaker 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.Deutsch 2015, pp. 55, 58–59, 309. His son Daniel Marot 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 Catholic, as an architect in the Bâtiments du Roi (1686 to 1702).Deutsch 2015, p. 57.

Jean Marot died in Paris.

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)Deutsch 2015, pp. 383–384.
• Gallica: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525039106.r=.langEN 4-HZ-256]
  • Le Magnifique château de Richelieu... (Paris, [c. 1657])
  • Gallica: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10501740p.r=.langEN 4-HA-6 (A)]
  • ETH (Library of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, at e-rara): {{doi|10.3931/e-rara-9235}}
  • INHA (Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art): [http://www.purl.org/yoolib/inha/14946 NUM 4 RES 826]
    • Petit Marot – Recueil des plans, profils, et élévations de plusieurs palais, chasteaux, églises, sépultures, grotes et hostels bâtis dans Paris (Paris, [c. 1659])Deutsch 2015, p. 437. Engravings were likely made 1656–1659.
    • Gallica: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k10403180.r=.langEN RES M-V-176]; [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84965642.r=.langEN 4-HA-7 (A)]; [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8496565g.r=.langEN 4-HA-7 (B)]
    • GRI (Library of the Getty Research Institute, at the Internet Archive): [https://archive.org/details/recueildesplansp00maro 122903]; 1764 reprint: [https://archive.org/details/petituvredarchit00maro 4663]
    • ETH: {{doi|10.3931/e-rara-5383}}
    • INHA: [http://www.purl.org/yoolib/inha/7089 NUM 4 RES 9]
      • Receuil des plus beaux portails de plusieures eglises de Paris (designs by {{Interlanguage link multi|Pierre Cottart|fr|3=Pierre Cottard}}, 1660)
      • GRI: [https://archive.org/details/receuildesplusbe00cott 247436]
      • Description générale de l’hôtel des Invalides... (1683) [of the 20 plates (not counting the frontispiece), 14 are by Marot, probably engraved in 1677; 2 additional plates were added in a later edition]Deutsch 2015, pp. 490.
      • INHA: [http://www.purl.org/yoolib/inha/12275 NUM FOL EST 144]
        • Grand Marot – [L’Architecture françoise] (Paris, [1686]) [later 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: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k10402607/f1.planchecontact.r=.langEN RES-V-371] (rare example of the first edition)
        • Heidelberg University Library: [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/marot1670 116946342]

File:Le Magnifique Château de Richelieu (Marot) INHA NUM 4 RES 826 – 01 Vue générale en perspective (adjusted).jpg|General perspective view of Jacques Lemercier's Château de Richelieu, engraved by Marot c. 1657, with embellishments by Jean Lepautre

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• Deutsch, Kristina (2011). "'Marot. Il se nommait Jean… '. Essai sur l’œuvre d’un graveur d’architecture du Grand Siècle", Nouvelles de l'estampe, no. 236 (Autumn 2011), pp. 4–23. {{ISSN|0029-4888}}.
• Deutsch, Kristina (2015). Jean Marot : Un graveur d'architecture à l'époque de Louis XIV. Berlin: De Gruyter. {{ISBN|9783110375954}}.
• Faucheux, Louis-Étienne (1857). Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre d'Israel Silvestre. Paris: Vve Jules Renouard. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5656304c/f4.image Copy] at Gallica.
• Jal, Auguste (1867). Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire. Paris: Henri Plon. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6539474q/f13.item Copy] at Gallica.
• Mauban, André (1944). Jean Marot: Architecte et Graveur Parisien. Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire. {{OCLC|7057275}}. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000454168 Catalog record] at HathiTrust.
• Turpin, Adriana (1996). "Marot: (1) Jean Marot I", vol. 20, pp. 456–458, in The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, reprinted with minor corrections in 1998. New York: Grove. {{ISBN|9781884446009}}. Also at [http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T054520pg1 Oxford Art Online] (subscription required).

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• [http://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Marot-French-architect-and-engraver "Jean Marot"] at the Encyclopædia Britannica online
• [http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Auteur/Marot.asp?param=en Articles on publications by Jean Marot] at the [http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/index.asp?param=en Architectura website] (Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours):
• [http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/Marot1659.asp?param=en Michaël Decrossas (2013) on the Petit Marot]
• [http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/MarotRichelieu.asp?param=en Frédérique Lemerle (2013) on Marot's Le magnifique chasteau de Richelieu...]
• [http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/Marot1683.asp?param=en Michaël Decrossas (2013) on Marot's Description générale de l’hôtel des Invalides...]

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