‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ 1741

Currently the most expensive violin in the world, the 1741 ‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ was sold in 2012 for a sum in excess of $16 million.
It has been given on lifetime loan to US violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.
Among its illustrious former players was Henri Vieuxtemps; at his funeral it was carried behind the hearse on a velvet cushion, by fellow violinist Eugène Ysaÿe