A violin attributed to Louis Collenot atelier.

Louis Collenot was born in 1863 in Rouvres-la-Chétive (Vosges) and died in 1933. The grandson of François Caussin, he served his apprenticeship from 1876 to 1878 under his uncle, Hippolyte Caussin. In 1878, Collenot joined the workshop of Honoré and Justin Derazey in Mirecourt. In 1882, he joined another of his uncles, Nicolas Caussin, in Neufchâteau. In 1897, Louis Collenot established himself in Reims, where he became the official violin maker to the music conservatory. Due to World War I, he moved to Paris in 1915 and joined Caressa et Français. He remained with them until 1917, when he established his own workshop on Rue Boursault. Louis Collenot later retired to his hometown of Rouvres-la-Chétive, where he continued a small-scale production.

Louis Collenot perpetuated the family tradition established by François Caussin by working in a copyist spirit. His models are freely inspired by Jacobus Stainer and Italian classics, typically using smaller patterns and full arching.

Labelled:

“Anno 1741 Carlo Bergonzi // fece in Cremona”

Branded on on the interior of the back plate: “LOUIS COLLENOT”

Size:

Body length – 355 mm