violin
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
built in Paris in 1829
A violin built by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume in Paris, 1829. Serial number 161. Stradivarius model.
Current player
Helena Druwé
from John Boumeester
History of this instrument
In 2005, the Louisa van der Velden Foundation made a substantial sum of money available, which gave the Musical Instrument Fund the opportunity to select four high-quality French instruments for purchase, thereby enabling the formation of a complete string quartet. This violin was the second purchase made as part of the project, which would ultimately take two years to complete. The violin was purchased from a German dealer. Helena Druwé, second violinist of the EnAccord String Quartet, was loaned the violin.
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...
