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Vuillaume violin signed integer * in Paris (iron mark on the back), with a bow, XIXth century.
This violin is in good condition it is in its own juice and its bow. No label inside. It will be to restore.
A note: small breaks, and repair slot in lebas violin (see red arrows), some shocks, scratches, small cracks and wear on the table, the bow has no mane, small slot on the bow, see pictures.
was not only one of the best French luthiers of the nineteenth century but also a key figure in the violin. In 1818 he went to Paris and worked for François Chanot and in 1821, in the shop of Joseph Dominique Lette. In 1824, they opened in Croix-des-Petits-Champs street a joint workshop on behalf of "Lette and Vuillaume." In 1827 he received his first silver medal at the World Exhibition in Paris and the following year, in 1828, he moved to his account in the Rue des Petits-Champs, at 46. His contact with Hector Berlioz the Niccolò Paganini soloists, Henri Vieuxtemps, Jean Alard, Pablo de Sarasate, the Belgian cellist Adrien-François Servais, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, and the surgeon, physicist and researcher in acoustic Félix Savart had a great influence on his work. Vuillaume devised the octobass and an against-viola, for Berlioz's works. He maintained a fascination for instruments of violin makers of Cremona, which his instruments bulimia did very specialist: the most famous violins, Stradivari (Soil, Messiah, Betts, The Maid, Alard, Dauphin, Swan Song of) or Garnerius Del Gesu (Stern, Sarasate) and famous cellos (the Stradivarius Servais) passed through his studio. It was Rudolph Koenig for student.
