Engraving By Jean Marot

Very beautiful engraving by the architect and engraver Jean Marot representing the Hotel de Liancourt in a landscape animated by riders and walkers. Marot's art lies in his architectural perspective mixed with the animated landscape of characters witnessing the urban animation. The play of shadow and light is perfectly expressed here on the buildings surrounding the perspective of the private mansion. The legend indicates "View and perspective of the Hotel de Liancourt when it will be completed according to the design of Mr Mercier, architect of the king" the signatures at the bottom of the legend: "drawn and engraved by J Marot" "With privilege of the King" "In Paris at Pierre Mariette rue St jJacques à l'Esperance" The engraving is carried by a beautiful modern frame finished by a mahogany wood rod with geometric lines------------------------------------------Jean Marot is the son of a Protestant carpenter, Girard Marot. He lived his entire life in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where there was a community of Protestant artists and craftsmen from the Netherlands. No details of his training are known. He probably began his studies in his father's workshop. His early prints include views of Roman monuments. Hippolyte Destailleur notes that Adam Philippon (1600-1645), "carpenter and ordinary engineer to the king," a print publisher, brought a colony of artists to Rome. He speculates that Jean Marot, the son of a carpenter, may have been part of this trip. Jean Lepautre (1618-1682), draftsman and engraver, was trained by Adam Philippon. Jean Marot is the architect of the hotels of Mortemart and Monceaux in Paris, of the facade of the church of the Feuillantines in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques, of which François Blondel collected the plans in his Architecture française, of the grottoes of the apartments of Madame de Montespan and Madame de La Vallière at the castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, of the facade of the hotel of Pussort and of the castle of Lavardin in Maine. He is the author of several projects that were never realized. He presented a project for the main facade of the Louvre, for the castle of the Elector Palatine in Manheim and for baths in Maisons: these projects are published in the Grand Marot. He was the father of the architect Daniel Marot.