page_title: Daniel Marot
hierarchical_section_title: Daniel Marot
caption_attribution_description: English: Daniël Marot (1661-1752), architect, furniture designer, garden designer and engraver. Nederlands: Daniël Marot (1661-1752), architect, meubelontwerper, tuinontwerper en graveur. Deutsch: Daniel Marot (1661-1752), Architekt, Möbelentwerfer, Gartenentwerfer und Kupferstecher. Français&#160;: Daniël Marot (1661-1752), architecte, créateur de meubles, concepteur de jardin et graveur. Español: Daniël Marot (1661-1752), arquitecto, diseñador de muebles, diseñador de jardines y grabador. Português: Daniël Marot (1661-1752), arquiteto, designer de mobiliário, jardim designer e gravador. Magyar: Daniël Marot (1661-1752) építész, bútortervező, kert tervező és rézmetsző. Русский: Daniël Marot (1661-1752), архитектор, дизайнер мебели, дизайнер сад и гравер. 中文: 丹尼尔·马罗特（1661年至1752年），建筑师，家具设计师，园林设计师和雕刻。 العربية: دانييل مارو (1661-1752)، مهندس معماري، مصمم الأثاث، حديقة مصمم وحفارة.
context_page_description: Daniel Marot was a French Protestant, an architect, furniture designer and engraver at the forefront of the classicizing Late Baroque "Louis XIV" style.
  Born in Paris, he was a pupil of Jean Le Pautre and the son of Jean Marot, who was also an architect and engraver. Marot was working independently as an engraver from an early age, making engravings of designs by Jean Bérain, one of Louis XIV's official designers at the Manufacture des Gobelins, where far more than tapestry was being produced. The family were Huguenots and were part of the wave of émigrés who left France in the year of the Edict of Fontainebleau and Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to settle in Holland. Daniel Marot brought the fully developed court style of Louis XIV to Holland, and later to London. In the end, the English style which is loosely called "William and Mary" owed much to his manner.
  In the Netherlands Marot was employed by the Stadthouder, who later became William III of England; in particular, he is associated with designing interiors in the palace of Het Loo, from 1684 on.
context_section_description: Daniel Marot (1661–1752) was a French Protestant, an architect, furniture designer and engraver at the forefront of the classicizing Late Baroque "Louis XIV" style. 
  Born in Paris, he was a pupil of Jean Le Pautre and the son of Jean Marot, who was also an architect and engraver. Marot was working independently as an engraver from an early age, making engravings of designs by Jean Bérain, one of Louis XIV's official designers at the Manufacture des Gobelins, where far more than tapestry was being produced. The family were Huguenots and were part of the wave of émigrés who left France in the year of the Edict of Fontainebleau and Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) to settle in Holland. Daniel Marot brought the fully developed court style of Louis XIV to Holland, and later to London. In the end, the English style which is loosely called "William and Mary" owed much to his manner.
  In the Netherlands Marot was employed by the Stadthouder, who later became William III of England; in particular, he is associated with designing interiors in the palace of Het Loo, from 1684 on. Though his name cannot be attached to any English building (and he does not have an entry in Howard Colvin's exhaustive Dictionary of British Architects) we know from his own engraving that he designed the great hall of audience for the States-General at the Hague. He also decorated many Dutch country-houses. 
  In 1694, he traveled with William to London, where he was appointed one of his architects and Master of Works. In England his activities appear to have been concentrated at Hampton Court Palace, where he designed the garden parterres, which were swept away in the following generation and have been restored at the end of the 20th century.  Much of the furniture, especially the mirrors, guéridons and state beds, in the new State Rooms readied for William at Hampton Court bears unmistakable traces of his authorship; the tall and monumental embroidered state beds, with their plumes of ostrich feathers, their elaborate valances and cantonnieres agree very closely with his later published designs (illustration, right).   
  In his engraved designs, Marot's range was extraordinarily wide. He designed practically every detail in the internal ornamentation of the house: carved chimney pieces, plaster ceilings, panels for walls, girandoles and wall brackets, and side tables with their pairs of tall stands. He designed gold and silver plate. The craze for collecting china which was at its height in his time is illustrated in his lavish designs for receptacles for porcelain: in one of his plates there are more than 300 pieces of china on the chimney-piece alone.
  After William's death Marot returned to Holland where he lived out his life. We owe much of our knowledge of his work to the folio volume of his furniture designs published at Amsterdam in 1712.  Not surprisingly the designs show strong French and Dutch influences; what reads as their "English" look is more probably the result of Marot's court style on other London designers.
  Marot was a nephew of Pierre Gole through being the son of Gole's sister-in-law. He also married Gole's niece.
caption: Daniël Marot (1661-1752)
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