{"id":22221,"date":"2017-01-20T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/?product=francois-breton-violin-french-master-violin"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:48:18","slug":"francois-breton-violin-french-master-violin","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/product\/francois-breton-violin-french-master-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"Francois Breton violin, circa 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0A beautiful old certified master violin &#8211; made by Fran\u00e7ois Breton &#8211; ca 1800\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aghMCa8h7ZU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is an authentic and <strong>early master violin<\/strong> made by Fran\u00e7ois Breton. (with Rampal certiifcate).<br \/>On of the <strong>oldest Fran\u00e7ois Breton violins we have seen so far, made circa 1800<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A very fine violin with a beautiful dark brown patina\/varnish.<br \/>This violin is made of very nice wood &#8211; a very nice flamed <strong>one-piece back<\/strong>, made of, nicely maple,\u00a0<br \/>flamed ribs and a good carved scroll.\u00a0<br \/>During the last years his instruments have increased in value many times over and are now quite sought after.<br \/>This Breton violin produces a warm, powereful and rich tone, with plenty of personality and projection.\u00a0<br \/>The violin comes with a new set of strings and a new chinrest, tailpiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The violin comes with a reliable certificate from Paris- included.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">LOB: ca 359 mm (4\/4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0see <a title=\"french violins\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/old-violins\/\">more\u00a0French violins<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Biography of Francois Breton<\/strong> &#8211; John Dilworth\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BRETON, Fran\u00e7ois Worked circa. 1778-1830 Mirecourt France. <br \/>Luthier to the Duchesse d\u2019Angoul\u00eame. Very prolific and much-imitated maker. <br \/>His own style is quite refined, generally a little over-sized, with flat arch and clear yellow varnish, <br \/>although showing some lack of attention in the details, and materials very variable in quality. <br \/>Thousands of factory made instruments produced in his style after his death (see above). <br \/>Also made good cellos and bows. <br \/>Branded on back button, and occasionally inscribed within pegbox: F. BRETON. Printed labels: <br \/>F Breton, Musicarius \/ Mitecurti, anno 1805. F Breton brevet\u00e9 Luthier de S.A.R. \/ Mme. la Duchesse d\u2019Angoul\u00eame \/ \u00e0 Mirecourt, 1816 BRETON BREVET\u00c9 \/ D<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0Pls <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">contact us<\/span> for more info.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francois Breton violin circa 1800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[277],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-22221","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-old-violins","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/22221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/22221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=22221"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=22221"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=22221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}