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Violin
Nicolas Augustin Chappuy (French, about 1730–1784)
1778
Object Place: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Maple, spruce, ebony
Dimensions
Length 59.2 cm, width 20.6 cm (Length 23 5/16 in., width 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Edwin M. Ripin Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by Isabel Pope Conant
Accession Number1977.64
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
DescriptionTwo-piece back and ribs of maple. Two-piece belly of fine-grain spruce. Regular purfling. Neck and pegbox of maple. Fingerboard, tailpiece, nut, saddle, and end button of ebony. Tuning pegs of boxwood. Orange-brown varnish. Internal construction: Normal modern.
InscriptionsPrinted label: AUGUSTINUS CHAPPUY / FECIT PARISIIS ANNO 17 [handwritten: 78]; stamped on back: CHAPPU[Y] / A PARI[S]
ProvenanceBefore 1965, Jacques Français, New York; 1965, sold by Jacques Français to Laurence Witten, Southport, Connecticut; 1974, sold by Laurence Witten to Edwin M Ripin (1930-1975), Forest Hills, New York; 1977, sold by the estate of Edwin M. Ripin to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 9, 1977)
Excerpt from Gavotte from Partita no. 3 in E major (BWV 1006), about 1720
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Daniel Stepner