Jean Mariette

• Illustration — The courtyard façade of the corps de logis of the single-storey residence Hôtel Chanac de Pompadour, later called Hôtel de Besenval, according to the plans of 1704 by Pierre-Alexis Delamair (engraving published by Jean Mariette in 1727) Over the course of his career he published almost 900 prints, including 35 reproductions of paintings by artists such as Nicolas Poussin, Domenico Zampieri, Charles Le Brun, Michel Corneille the Younger, Louis Chéron, Antoine Dieu, Guido Reni, A. Caracci, Sébastien Bourdon, Giovanni Contarini, and Anthony van Dyck. In 1727 Jean Mariette published three volumes under the title L'Architecture françoise, a collection of plans, elevations, and cross sections of French buildings, which is one of the most important sources concerning French classical architecture. According to the architectural historian Emil Kaufmann, the majority of these prints were designed and engraved by Jacques-François Blondel (who published his own Architecture françoise in 1752–1756), although other engravers, including Pierre Lepautre, Antoine Hérisset, and Claude Lucas, and other designers, such as Delamonce, J. M. Chevotet, P. C. Prevostel, and Pineau, were also involved. A fourth volume, published the same year under the same title, was a reedition of the Grand Marot, and a fifth volume in a larger format was published in 1738.