Claude Augustin Miremont

Violin maker
(1827 – 1887)

Claude Augustin Miremont, born in 1827, learned the trade from his own father, Sebastian, before completing his training with two more established Mirecourt and Paris workshops — first Collin-Mézin in Mirecourt, then Lafleur and Bernardel in Paris. In 1852 he crossed the Atlantic and set up his own shop in New York, one of a wave of French-trained makers testing the American market in the mid-19th ...Read More century. He stayed nearly a decade, closing the New York shop in 1861 to return to Paris, where he remained for the rest of his career.

He worked mainly on Stradivari and Guarneri patterns, built with somewhat deeper ribs than was typical, and finished his instruments in a thin orange-red to red-brown varnish. Cellos were his real preference, and his reputation rested largely on them — fine, careful workmanship earned him top honours at four separate world exhibitions over his career. He also made a number of bows, stamped with his own name. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $93,554 in Oct 2019, for a cello.
- 55 auction price results.

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