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Print, Design for a Garden Parterre of Cut Grass and Colored Gravel, from Nouveaux Livre de Parterres (New Book of Garden Beds) from Oeuvres du Sr. Marot
This is a Print. It was designed by Daniel Marot. We acquired it in 1988. Its medium is etching on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France (1685) Daniel Marot fled to Holland, where he worked for William of Orange and his court. Marot produced extravagant designs for everything from beds, to curtains and mirrors. In his designs for gardens, Marot balanced a passion for ornament and order, as illustrated here with a semi-enclosed garden surrounded by a berceau or tunnel arcade. The grid-like structure of the parterres – delineated by straight paths and a square garden tunnel – owes much to tradition, reminiscent of French and Dutch Renaissance gardens, such as those depicted by Androuet du Cerceau in “The most Excellent Buildings of France” (1576-79). In contrast, Marot’s proposition for a swerving interior tunnel arcade is highly original, inspired by ornamental motifs and probably also by the gardens at Het Loo Palace. Adding innovation to a traditional scheme, Marot successfully combines old and new in a design already heralding the baroque creations of the 18th century.
- Drawing, Four Studies of Garden Parterres, 1912–19
- brush and watercolor, black chalk, graphite on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1991-58-27
- Drawing, Design for a Garden with Geometric Parterres, 1912–19
- brush and watercolor, white gouache, black crayon on cream tracing paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1991-58-24
- Drawing, Study for Walled Garden with Sculpture, Benches, and a Row of Five...
- graphite on tracing paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1991-58-31
Our curators have highlighted 9 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Print, Espalier Garden Fashioned as a Labyrinth with Two Fountains, ca. 1700
- etching on paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1988-4-18
- Print, Jardin partage en quatres parterres et Thérasses (Garden Beds and...
- etching and engraving on white laid paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1988-4-14
- Drawing, Proposal for Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1986
- pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor on thick white wove paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt.
- 1993-115-1
Cite this object as
Print, Design for a Garden Parterre of Cut Grass and Colored Gravel, from Nouveaux Livre de Parterres (New Book of Garden Beds) from Oeuvres du Sr. Marot; Designed by Daniel Marot (French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752); France; etching on cream laid paper; 1988-4-17
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.
