Jean Mariette
active Paris, 1686 - 1742
Mariette, Jean (1660-1742) forme internationale
Nationalité(s) : France
Sexe : masculin
Responsabilité(s) exercée(s) sur les documents : Imprimeur libraire (Texte imprimé), Auteur
Naissance : 1660-06-22
Mort : 1742-09-19
Période d'activité : 1686?-1742
Devise(s) : Haec meta laborum
Libraire, graveur et marchand d'estampes et de cartes. - Fils de Pierre II Mariette, éditeur et marchand d'estampes à Paris ; gendre (1693) de l'imprimeur-libraire Jean-Baptiste II Coignard. Exerce comme marchand d'estampes dès avant 1686. Reçu libraire le 27 juin 1702 sur présentation de son demi-frère Nicolas I Langlois, à qui il succédera. En 1716, hérite du fonds et de la maison de Pierre II Mariette. Revend une partie de son fonds de gravures en 1733 et 1734. Décédé à Paris en sept. 1742
Adresse : Paris : 1686?-1742. - Rue Saint-Jacques. - Enseigne(s) : Aux Colonnes d'Hercule
Biography (english):
Jean Mariette (bapt Saint-Benoît, July 1660; d Paris, 20 Sept 1742).
Engraver, print dealer and publisher, and collector, son of (2) Pierre Mariette (ii). His mother was Madeleine de Collemont, and he studied painting under his brother-in-law Jean-Baptiste Corneille. He gave up painting in favour of engraving and the family business. After his father’s death in 1716, he took over the ‘Librairie des Colonnes d’Hercule’, the business at the sign of ‘L’Espérance’ being inherited by his elder brother Pierre-Joseph Mariette (1656–1729). He produced nearly 900 prints after artists such as Domenichino, Poussin, Le Brun and Corneille, as well as prints after his own designs. He specialized in the design of vignettes, frontispieces, portraits and other decorations for books. In 1727 he began to publish L’Architecture française, a five-volume collection of plans, elevations and cross-sections of modern French buildings, which is one of the most important sources for the study of French classical architecture. Jean Mariette was considered by his contemporaries as the greatest connoisseur of prints of his time. He had connections with many important collectors, one of his best clients being Prince Eugene of Savoy. He continued to enlarge both the stock inherited from his father and the Mariette private collection, the best of which he had inherited. This included over 300 prints by Rembrandt, as well as sheets by or after Rubens, Dürer, Callot and many others. He had a particular predilection for the prints of Marcantonio Raimondi, Callot and Hollar, but also added to the collection graphic works by contemporary artists, many of whom were his associates and friends. His numerous documents on art and artists provided the basis for the studies of his son (4) Pierre-Jean Mariette.
(Amy L. Walsh. "Mariette." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed November 30, 2015)
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Last Updated8/7/24
active Paris, 1714 - 1774
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