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Jean Ouvrard

Highest auction price

£3,520

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.8 cm Paris, 1745 c. (numerous restorations) Fri 1st December 2006 £719
Violin 36.1 cm Paris, 1745 c. (heel broken and different restorations) Fri 1st December 2006 £1,438
Violin 1740 Wed 1st December 1999 £2,597
Violin 1740 c. Fri 1st November 1991 £1,760
Violin 1726 Fri 1st March 1991 £3,520
Violin 1720-50 Fri 1st January 1982 £264
Violin 1744 Sun 1st June 1980 £1,872
Biographies

John Dilworth

OUVRARD, Jean Worked circa. 1720 died 1748 Paris France. Pupil of Claude Pierray. Master of the violin makers guild 1742-1743. Established in the rue de l’Ecole c.1735. Employed G. Cousineau and an apprentice named François Feury. His widow married Salomon. Violins and cellos on a small Amatisé model. Workmanship slightly finer than that of Pierray. Golden-yellow or red-brown varnish. Viols and quintons in museum collections in Brussels, New York. and Basle. Ouvrard. Luthier. Place de l’Ecole à Paris 1744 Fait par J. Ouvrard / à Paris 1726

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