Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1727, the 'Kreutzer'

Violin: 40535

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Labeled, "Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1727" and "Choisi par Kreutzer."

Back: One-piece of small curl

Top: of narrow grain broadening towards the flanks

Scroll: of wood similar to back

Ribs: of wood similar to back

Varnish: Golden orange

Length of back: 35.7 cm

Upper bouts: 16.7 cm

Middle bouts: 11.3 cm

Lower bouts: 20.6 cm

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Provenance

	Felder
until 1806	Nicolas Lupot
from 1806	Grand Duke of Russia
1880-1906	E. Hertel
until 1885	David Laurie
from 1885	W. E. Hill & Sons
in 1906	Sold by Caressa & Français
from 1906	Hamma & Co.
in 1909	Xavier Wittman
from 1910	Wittgenstein family
in 1925	Senator William Andrews Clark
until 1958	Dr. Felix Salzer
in 1958	Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
1958-1998	George Kress
in 1998	Sold by Christie's
from 1998	Current owner

Maxim Vengerov, Rudolph Kreutzer

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Alte Geigen (Hamma, 1939), Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (illustrated)
An Encyclopedia of the Violin (1925), Alberto Bachman, The Library Press Limited, London
Berühmte Geigen und ihre Schicksale, P. J. Tonger, Cologne (illustrated)
Christie's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, April 1, 1998, London, Christie's, Christie's, London (illustrated)
Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mitteralter bis zur Gegenwart, Willibald Freiherr von Lütgendorff, Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main (illustrated)
Geschichte der Violine, Fritz Meyer, Bosworth & Co (illustrated)
https://www.christies.com/departments/exceptionalprices.asp?DID=42
Italian Violin Makers (1964), Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964 (illustrated)
Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., Stuttgart
Private Archives - 10842
The Strad 2001 Calendar, Orpheus Publications, London (illustrated)
The Violin Book, Bafalon, London (illustrated)
Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, NY (illustrated)
The Strad, February, 2007, Newsquest Specialist Media, London (illustrated)