Born in 1758 in Stuttgart, Nicolas Lupot received his first training as a violin-maker from his father François after he returned to Orléans, where the early production of his most famous heir is thus also located.
Nicolas settled in Paris in 1794, and he started there a hugely successful business that gave him the opportunity to study the great instruments of the classical Cremonese school that circulated in the capital during that period. His work was therefore deeply inspired by these, and especially by the instruments by Antonio Stradivari, which Lupot imitated while maintaining his own personal style and creating flat and large-format violins that earned him the appreciation of many musicians and experts. He was the official luthier of the imperial chapel of Napoleon and, after the restoration, of King Louis XVIII, as well as of the prestigious Conservatory of the city. He trained at least two important apprentices: August Sébastien Philippe Bernardel and Charles François Gand, who inherited his business.
