Laprevotte Violin

Object Details

Laprevotte, Etienne

Description (Brief)

This violin was made by Etienne Laprevotte in Paris, France in 1834. Laprevotte was born in Mirecourt at the end of the 18th century and died in Paris in 1856. He was appointed maker to the Duke of Bordeaux and achieved his greatest reputation for beautifully crafted guitars. This violin retains a reset original neck, bassbar and three original pegs. Ii is made of a one-piece table of spruce, one-piece back of slab-cut maple with broad, irregular horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple; moderately deeply figured original (but reset) neck, with pegbox and scroll, and a semitransparent dark reddish-orange varnish

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of H. Carrington Bolton

1834

ID Number

MI.096610

catalog number

095610

accession number

31631

Object Name

violin

Physical Description

spruce (table material)

maple (back material)

Measurements

overall: 23 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 59.69 cm x 18.415 cm x 9.2075 cm

Place Made

France: Île-de-France, Paris

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Record ID

nmah_605504

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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