Jean Marot (1619 – 15 December 1679) was a French
architect 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
Louis XIV.[1][2][3]
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.[6] 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).[1][7]
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)[8]
Petit Marot – Recueil des plans, profils, et élévations de plusieurs palais, chasteaux, églises, sépultures, grotes et hostels bâtis dans Paris (Paris, [c. 1659])[9]
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][10]
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)[11]
Gallica:
RES-V-371 (rare example of the first edition)
^Deutsch 2015, pp. 131–133, 459–461. The engravings were probably made from 1648 up to the beginning of the 1670s.
Bibliography
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.
ISSN0029-4888.
Deutsch, Kristina (2015). Jean Marot : Un graveur d'architecture à l'époque de Louis XIV. Berlin: De Gruyter.
ISBN9783110375954.
Faucheux, Louis-Étienne (1857). Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre d'Israel Silvestre. Paris: Vve Jules Renouard.
Copy at
Gallica.
Jal, Auguste (1867). Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire. Paris: Henri Plon.
Copy at Gallica.
Mauban, André (1944). Jean Marot: Architecte et Graveur Parisien. Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire.
OCLC7057275.
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.
ISBN9781884446009. Also at
Oxford Art Online (subscription required).