Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1734, the 'Nadaud, Kuhlenkampff'
Violin: 40725
Labeled, "Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis faciebat 1734."
Back: Two-piece of horizontal medium curl
Top: of medium grain at the center opening out towards the flanks
Ribs: of fainter broad curl
Varnish: Golden-brown
Length of back: 35.5 cm
Upper bouts: 16.8 cm
Middle bouts: 11.35 cm
Lower bouts: 20.8 cm
Notes:
". . . the back retouched by Thibout."Stradivarius-Guarnerius del Gesù: Catalogue descriptif de leurs instruments, Charles-Eugène Gand, Stradivarius-Guarnerius del Gesù: Catalogue descriptif de leurs instruments (Facsimile of Gand's notes from 1870-91), Spa
Provenance
| M. de Seuil | |
| Sold by Hamma & Co. | |
| Georges Kuhlenkampff | |
| in 1870 | M. de Forneret |
| ... | ... |
| 1895-1903 | Edouard Nadaud |
| until 1903 | Silvestre & Maucotel |
| from 1903 | Dr. Samuel Bonjour |
| from 1909 | Willy Burmester |
| in 1987 | Sold by Sotheby's |
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: Association des Maitres Luthiers Suisses (1960)- Certificate: Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (1953)
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References
- Alte Geigen (Hamma, 1939), Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (illustrated)
- Alte Meistergeigen: Band III und IV, Die Cremoneser Schule / Antonius Stradivarius, Verband Schweizerischer Geigenbaumeister, Verlag Edwin Bochinsky, Frankfurt am Main (illustrated)
- Berühmte Geigen und ihre Schicksale, P. J. Tonger, Cologne (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)
- Italian Violin Makers (1964), Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964 (illustrated)
- Italienische Geigenbauer (1957), Karel Jalovec, Artia, Prague, 1957 (illustrated)
- Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Hamma & Co., Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven (illustrated)
- Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (illustrated)
- Sotheby's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, April 30, 1987, London, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London (illustrated)
- Stradivarius-Guarnerius del Gesù: Catalogue descriptif de leurs instruments (Facsimile of Gand's notes from 1870-91), Charles-Eugène Gand, Les Amis de la Musique, Spa
- Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, NY (illustrated)
Alte Geigen (Hamma, 1939), Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (illustrated)
