instrument
violin bow
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
built in Paris in ± 1850
A violin bow from the workshop of (and stamped by) J.B. Vuillaume, made in Paris ca. 1850. Self-retaining model, octagonal shaft with silver mountings. The frog and butt are not original.
History of this instrument
This bow was donated by a private individual in 2025.
About the builder Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
In September 1867, ten years before his death, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume wrote about the violins, violas, and cellos he had submitted that year to the Great Exhibition in Paris; “I exhibited two quartets that embody everything I know, in...