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Pierre Lepileur

Paris, worked 1725–1760

Also known as ‘Pietro Le Pilieri’. Amateur maker. Poor work on narrow model. Dull brown varnish. Cellos deemed slightly more acceptable. Pierre Le Pileur, privilégiéz du Roy / dans l’abbaye Saint-Germain, à Paris / 1754 — John Dilworth

Worked Paris
Made Viola, Violin

Auction Price History

Highest auction price

£4,200

6 results

Type Details Auction house Sold Price
Violin35.5 cm Paris, 1749January 2011£3,500
Violin34.9 cm 1755 c. Attributed toJanuary 2010£2,253
Violin35.7 cm Paris, 1760 c.January 2006£2,299
Viola39.9 cm France, 1760 c.January 2005£4,200
Violin1748January 1995£2,300
Viola41.4 cm 1750January 1985£2,420

Biographies

The overview above is drawn from the following published accounts. Read them in the original:

John Dilworth+

LEPILEUR, Pierre Worked circa. 1725-1760 Paris France. Also known as ‘Pietro Le Pilieri’. Amateur maker. Poor work on narrow model. Dull brown varnish. Cellos deemed slightly more acceptable. Pierre Le Pileur, privilégiéz du Roy / dans l’abbaye Saint-Germain, à Paris / 1754

Cecie Stainer+

A maker in Paris about 1750-55. He worked in connection with the Abbaye Saint-Germain, thus gaining certain privileges, it no longer being necessary for him to go through the expensive ceremony of being received into the Corporation of Instrument makers; he was also exempt from taxes. His instruments are not particularly good, of rather a long pattern, and with ugly brown varnish.
Label: “Pierre Le Pileur, privilegiez du Roy dans I’abbaye Saint-Germain A Paris, 1754 ” ; a similar label is dated 1752-

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

Wenig bekannter Geigenmacher. Er wendete ein unschönes, langes Modell und einen schlechten, rothbraunen Lack an. Er soll sich auch »Pietro Le Pilieri« genannt haben.

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