Derazey Violin
date: label: Date made
content: 1880
name: label: maker
content: Derazey, H.
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by Honoré (Jean Joseph) Derazey in Mirecourt, France around 1880. Interest on the part of J.B. Vuillaume to make exact visual replicas of important Cremonese violins led to a commission for his copying an ornamented viola da gamba attributed to Gaspar Tieffenbrucker (Lyon, ca.1514-1571). The instrument, decorated on the back with marquetry inlay showing a scenic city landscape of Paris along with religious symbols and icons, led Vuillaume to make decorated copies of violins in similar ornamental style after 1827. By 1830, Honoré (Jean Joseph) Derazey (1794-1883), also from Mirecourt and working in Paris, joined the Vuillaume workshop and became the maker of many Gaspar da Salo decorated copies, known as the ornamental "Duiffopruggar" violins of J.B. Vuillaume.
label: Description
content: Derazey later returned to Mirecourt to become an award-winning maker in his own right, with a fine reputation for copies of Stradivari, but continuing production of ornamental violins as well. His son
label: Description
content: Justin Derazey (1850-1890) worked and continued the family business, being joined by Paul Mangenot and later by Laberte-Hubert Freres who by 1920 held title to Nicholas ainé, Derazey and other brands. Instruments like this violin branded “H. Derazey” are probably from the commercial collaboration of Honoré with his son in the Mirecourt workshops, ca. 1880.
label: Description
content: This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, one-piece back of maple cut on 45° with even, medium-fine figure descending to the right, ribs of similar maple, an original maple neck terminating in a pegbox and bearded male head with laurel wreath, and a semi-transparent yellow orange-brown varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: France: Grand Est, Mirecourt
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Violins
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Millant, Roger. J. B. Vuillaume. His Life and Work
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sandra Ottenberg in memory of Matilda Marcus Newman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0388.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0388
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0388.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (back material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in x 4 in; 62.23 cm x 20.955 cm x 10.16 cm