Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
Bow maker / Violin maker
(1798 – 1875)
In addition to being a renowned and prolific maker of fine violins, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume was a highly successful dealer, connoisseur and inventor. His workshop in Paris employed and trained some of the finest 19th-century violin and bow makers, including Maucotel, Silvestre, Derazey, the Peccatte brothers, Persoit, Fonclause, Simon and Voirin. The workshop, which Vuillaume founded in the rue Croix des Petits Champs in 1827 and moved to the rue Demours-Ternes in 1858, produced over 3,000 instruments, which are similar and abundant enough to be readily identifiable. Most also bear a label, brand, number and signature identifying them as examples of the Vuillaume workshop.
Born in the violin making city of Mirecourt, Vuillaume moved to Paris in 1818 and apprenticed with Chanot before establishing his own workshop, where he began by imitating the work of Lupot. However, Vuillaume quickly gained skill as a copyist of older instruments, particularly those of Stradivari and Guarneri 'del Gesù', which coalesced with an early interest in violin dealing. In 1855 Vuillaume made the astute move to buy up the Italian dealer Luigi Tarisio's stock of 144 instruments, which included some of Stradivari's best works, not least the
Price History
- The auction record for this maker is $542,369 in Jun 2021, for a violin.
- 846 auction price results.
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Bows
Violin -
1823
Paris
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1823
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1823
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1825
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c. 1825
Paris
Violin -
1826
Paris
Violin -
1826
Paris
Violin -
1827
Paris
Violin -
1827
Paris
the 'Drouet'
Violin -
1827
Paris
Violin -
1827
Paris
the 'Ysaÿe'
Violin -
1828
Paris
the 'Hamma'
Violin -
1828
Paris
the 'Ysaÿe'
Violin -
1828
Paris
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c. 1828
Paris
Violin -
1829
Paris
the 'Waddell, Kaufmann'
Violin -
1829
Paris
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1829
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the 'Warfield'
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1829
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1829
Paris
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c. 1830
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1830
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c. 1830
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1832
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Violin -
1835
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1835
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Violin -
1839
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c. 1840
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1840
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1840
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1840
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1840
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1840
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1840
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1840
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1840
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c. 1840
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c. 1840
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c. 1841
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c. 1842
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1842
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1843
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1843
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1843
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the 'Ferdinand David'
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1843
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c. 1843
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c. 1843
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c. 1844
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c. 1844
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1844
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1844
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1844
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1845
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1845
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the 'Jack Benny'
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1845
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1845
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1845
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1845
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1845
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c. 1845
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c. 1845
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1845
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c. 1845
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c. 1845
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1846
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the 'Posner'
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1846
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1846
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1847
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1847
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1847
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1847
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c. 1848
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1848
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1848
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1848
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1848
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1848
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1848
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1849
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1849
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c. 1850
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the 'Stern'
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c. 1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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c. 1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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the 'Paganini, Kreisler'
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1850
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1850
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1850
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1850
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c. 1850
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c. 1850
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1851
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c. 1852
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1852
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1852
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1852
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1852
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1852
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1853
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1854
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Violin -
1854
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the 'Rappoldi'
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c. 1855
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c. 1855
Paris
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c. 1855
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c. 1855
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c. 1855
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1855
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1855
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1855
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c. 1855
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1855
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1855
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1855
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1855
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1855
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1855
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1855
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1855
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1855
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the 'Hug'
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1855
Paris
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1855
Paris
Violin -
c. 1855
Paris
the 'Sun-Law'
Violin -
1856
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Violin -
1856
Paris
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1856
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c. 1856
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c. 1856
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1856
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1857
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1857
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1857
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1858
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1858
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1858
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the 'Le Koucheliov'
Violin -
1859
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c. 1860
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c. 1860
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c. 1860
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the 'Polewitzky'
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1860
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1860
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1860
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1860
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1860
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1860
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1860
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1860
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1860
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1860
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c. 1860
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c. 1860
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1861
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1862
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1862
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1862
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1862
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1862
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1862
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1863
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1863
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1863
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1863
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1863
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1863
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the 'St. Joseph'
Violin -
1863
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Violin -
1864
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Violin -
1864
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Violin -
1864
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Violin -
1864
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Violin -
1864
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1864
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Violin -
c. 1865
Paris
Violin -
1865
Paris
Violin -
1865
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the 'Chimay'
Violin -
1865
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Violin -
1865
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Violin -
1865
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the 'Chimay'
Violin -
1865
Paris
the 'Sheremetev'
Violin -
1865
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Violin -
1865
Paris
Violin -
1866
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Violin -
1866
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Violin -
1866
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Violin -
1866
Paris
Violin -
1867
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1867
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1867
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1867
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1867
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Violin -
1867
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Violin -
1867
Paris
Violin -
1868
Paris
the 'Garcin'
Violin -
1868
Paris
Violin -
1868
Paris
Violin -
1869
Paris
Violin -
1869
Paris
Violin -
1869
Paris
Violin -
c. 1869
Paris
Violin -
1870
Paris
Violin -
1870
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Violin -
1870
Paris
Violin -
1870
Paris
the 'St. Paul'
Violin -
1870
Paris
Violin -
1871
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Violin -
1871
Paris
Violin -
1871
Paris
Violin -
c. 1871
Paris
Violin -
1872
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Violin -
1872
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Violin -
1872
Paris
Violin -
1873
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Violin -
1873
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Violin -
1873
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Violin -
1873
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Violin -
1873
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Violin -
1873
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Violin -
1873
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Violin -
1874
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Violin -
1874
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Violin -
1874
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the 'Vieuxtemps'
Violin -
1874
Paris
Violin -
1874
Paris
Violin -
1874
Paris
the 'Laurie'
Violin -
1874
Paris
Violin -
1874
Paris
Violin -
c. 1875
Paris
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No Date
Paris
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No Date
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No Date
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the 'Zukerman'
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No Date
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No Date
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No Date
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No Date
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No Date
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No Date
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No Date
Paris
Viola -
1829
Paris
Viola -
c. 1840
Paris
Viola -
1840
Paris
Viola -
1842
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Viola -
1847
Paris
Viola -
1850
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Viola -
1859
Paris
Viola -
1859
Paris
Viola -
1860
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Viola -
1862
Paris
Viola -
1864
Paris
Viola -
1865
Paris
the 'Sheremetev'
Viola -
1865
Paris
the 'Chimay'
Viola -
1874
Paris
Viola -
1874
Paris
Viola -
No Date
Paris
Viola -
No Date
Paris
Small Violin -
1831
Paris
Cello -
1823
Paris
Cello -
1828
Paris
the 'Corbin'
Cello -
1828
Paris
Cello -
1840
Paris
Cello -
1840
Paris
Cello -
1844
Paris
Cello -
1844
Paris
Cello -
c. 1845
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Cello -
1845
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Cello -
1845
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Cello -
1845
Paris
Cello -
c. 1845
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Cello -
1845
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Cello -
c. 1845
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Cello -
1846
Paris
Cello -
1847
Paris
Cello -
1850
Paris
Cello -
c. 1850
Paris
Cello -
1850
Paris
Cello -
c. 1850
Paris
Cello -
c. 1850
Paris
Cello -
1854
Paris
the 'Pegasus'
Cello -
1855
Paris
Cello -
1855
Paris
Cello -
c. 1858
Paris
Cello -
1860
Paris
Cello -
1860
Paris
Cello -
1860
Paris
Cello -
1860
Paris
Cello -
1862
Paris
Cello -
1863
Paris
the ''Count Doria''
Cello -
1865
Paris
the 'Sheremetev'
Cello -
1865
Paris
the 'Chimay'
Cello -
1866
Paris
Cello -
1868
Paris
Cello -
1869
Paris
Cello -
1869
Paris
the 'Cowling'
Cello -
1872
Paris
Cello -
1873
Paris
Cello -
Mid-19thC
Paris
Cello -
No Date
Paris
