# Plan of the Hôtel de Jars, Paris [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANSART, François]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary During the period of 1640-45 Mansart built a series of private houses in Paris, some of which survive and some of which are known from engravings. In the Hôtel de Jars, begun in 1648, he made an important innovation in planning. The site was narrow, and in order to take full advantage of it he arranged the principal rooms in two parallel ranges, with the staircase at the right-hand end of that on the court side. This freer disposition in depths enables him to give greater variety of shape and size of the rooms and at the same time to arrange convenient access to all of them. It was to be followed in most of the later developments of the hôtel design. The engraving is from the Petit Marot \(c. 1659\) by Jean Marot. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Château de Berny]() - [Château de Berny]() - [Château de Berny]() - [Church and Convent of the Feuillants, Paris]() - [Elevation of the Hôtel Carnavalet, Paris]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()