page_title: Jean Marot (architect)
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Marot (architect) / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Title print (in a set of 11 prints, first published in 1649), depicting the Palais d'Orléans (Luxembourg Palace) in Paris; architecture engraved by Jean Marot, the small figures and the banner with the Orléans coat of arms, by Stefano della Bella, after a drawing by Israël Silvestre (according to Faucheux 1856–1858, p. 155). Alexandre de Vesme (Alessandro Baudi di Vesme), who prepared a 1906 catalogue of Della Bella's engravings (reprinted by Massar in 1971), finds the attribution by Faucheux to Silvestre difficult to accept (Vesme 1906, p. 227).
context_page_description: Jean Marot 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 and the Grand Marot, 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.
context_section_description: 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. 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. 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.
caption: Perspective view of the street facade of Salomon de Brosse's Palais du Luxembourg in 1649, as engraved by Marot in collaboration with Israël Silvestre and Stefano della Bella
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