Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1718, the 'Arnold Rosé, Viotti'
Violin: 41480
Bearing its original label, "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1718."
Back: Two-piece
Length of back: 35.55 cm
Upper bouts: 16.6 cm
Middle bouts: 10.8 cm
Lower bouts: 20.65 cm
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Notes:
Named 'Mysa' by Arnold Rosé when it was presented to him by a group of admirers led by Countess Mysa Wydenbruck Esterhazy as a gift for his 50th birthday in October 1913.Provenance
| Giovanni Battista Viotti | |
| until 1912 | Hamma & Co. |
| 1913-1945 | Arnold Josef Rosé |
| until 1947 | Emil Herrmann, New York |
| 1947-1958 | Louis E. Brooks |
| L. E. Cooper | |
| in 1975 | Robert Mann |
| ... | ... |
| in 1986 | Nicholas Mann |
| until 1991 | Jacques Français |
| from 1991 | Japanese Bank |
| in 2010 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
Known players
Alma Rosé, Anne Akiko Meyers, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Nicholas Mann, Robert Mann
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: Machold Rare Violins, Ltd, Vienna (2003)- Certificate: Jacques Français, New York, NY (1991) #3085.
- Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1962)
- Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York, New York, NY (1949)
- Certificate: Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (1914)
- Certificate: Wurlitzer, New York, NY
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References
36 Famous Italian Violins, Alex Wasinski, Herman Gordon, New York (illustrated)- Antonius Stradivarius (Volumes I-IV), Jost Thöne, Jan Röhrmann, Alessandra Barabaschi, Jost Thöne Verlag, Cologne, 2010 (illustrated)
- How Many Strads? (1999 edition), Doring, Bein & Fushi, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1999
- Private Papers
- Quartet of Decades
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
- The last flowering of old Vienna
- Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, NY (illustrated)