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This violin has the wide, flattish arching of Lupot’s model, Antonio Stradivari, and a fine, transparent, orange-red varnish. The neck is new, but the pegbox is original. The maple back is richly ornamented with the orders of Saint-Michel and the Saint-Esprit and other emblems of the French royal family. The inscription on the ribs records the award of this instrument to a student at the Royal School of Music in Paris in 1818, Joseph Clavel, a pupil of Rodolphe Kreutzer, who became a violinist at the Théatre Italien.

  • Date:
    1816
  • Maker:
    Lupot, Nicolas [Person]
  • Collection:
    Ashmolean Museum
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  • Place of production:
    Paris (Timezone: Europe/Paris)
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  • Materials:maple
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  • Inscriptions:inscription/mark: [premier]PRIX / DECERNÉ / L'AN 18[18] (on ribs of the bass side)|inscription/mark: N Lupot / a Paris (Printed with a brand of a crowned eagle surrmounting the words and the date 1815 added in ink)|inscription/mark: Paris Conservatoire Premier PRix 1818 recipient Joseph Clavel Pupil of Rudolphe Kreutzer 1813-18 Albert Cooper 1985 (Paper label covering the original top block)|inscription/mark (A label from Wurlitzer's 1925 catalogue is also gummed to the back inside)|inscription/mark: Nicolas Luport, Lautheir, rue Croix / des petits-Champs, a Paris, l'an 1816 (Printed label, the date added in ink)
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  • Repository:Ashmolean Museum
  • Measurements:357.75 mm of back length; 167.5 mm upper bout (back) width; 109.25 mm middle bout (back) width; 207.5 mm lower bout (back) width; 329 mm string length