Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume [?]
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume [?]
Instrument: violin
Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars with a bow
Violin maker: Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume / unknown
Date: 1823 [?]
Town: Paris [?]
Country: France [?]
Owner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s Collection of Violins
Inventory number: KIL-3, identification no. MKiS XV-C-3
Provenance: bought from Karol Bernhaut from Warsaw on 26 July 1956
Description: A. Stradivari’s model; spruce belly, sycamore back; varnish in light orange shades; for solo and ensemble performance; maintained by J. Karoń (1957), E. Gosiewski (1961, 1966), A. Wayda (1969)
Inscriptions: handwritten label reading: J B Vuillaume No 4 / Chez N.A. Lété Rue Saint-Sauveur No 20 / á Paris 1823
Measurements: body length 354 mm, upper bout 164 mm, middle bout 99 mm, lower bout 202 mm, total length 596 mm
Materials: spruce, sycamore
Catalog card: based on the Union of Polish Artist Violin Makers’ documentation
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