The outstanding Mirecourt master of the early nineteenth century, celebrated for inventive models, superb workmanship and a highly personal style.
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A bow by Étienne Pajeot is available.
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Étienne Pajeot was born into a Mirecourt bow-making family and learned the craft in the workshop of his father, Louis Simon Pajeot. His own brand appears from about 1815, when his earliest bows still followed the family model with pointed heads and low, elongated frogs.
During the 1820s Pajeot developed a more recognisably personal language. His heads became narrower yet broader in profile, while his frogs rose in height and were sometimes made in ivory. Buttons could be unusually short and finished with octagonal rings. These details were never merely decorative: they belonged to a searching, inventive approach to construction.
Pajeot remained in Mirecourt and became one of the town’s defining masters. His workshop supplied bows to leading dealers and makers, and his influence can be traced through Nicolas Rémy Maire, Claude Joseph Fonclause and others connected with the Mirecourt tradition.
Why this maker matters
A place in the history of the bow.
Pajeot demonstrated that Mirecourt could produce work of the highest artistic and technical order. His finest bows stand alongside the great Parisian examples while retaining a character that is unmistakably his own.
Characteristics often studied
Inventive and varied head models
Distinctive frogs, sometimes in ivory
Short buttons with carefully worked rings
A combination of strength, elegance and individuality
Workshop, associations & marks
Trained by his father Louis Simon Pajeot
Brand used from around 1815
Central influence within nineteenth-century Mirecourt
Associated stylistically with Maire and Fonclause
Attribution and certification
This profile is an educational introduction. A stamp, model or single construction detail is never sufficient to establish authorship. This bow is accompanied by a certificate from Cabinet Raffin; the certificate and complete private dossier are supplied directly to the prospective client.
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