Jacob Stainer, Absam, 1671
Violin: 41795
Bearing its original label manuscript: "Jacobus Stainer in Absom / propè Oenipontum m.pia 1671."
Back: Two-piece with narrow flaming
Length of back: 35.4 cm
Upper bouts: 16.4 cm
Middle bouts: 11.1 cm
Lower bouts: 20.2 cm
Notes:
Listed as 1674 by Axelrod. Loaned to the Smithsonian Institution till 2004.Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod, Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection
On loan to Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum since 2004.
Classy Visitors To Vienna Museum, The Strad, January, 2004, London
Provenance
| Sold by Hug & Co. | |
| in 1922 and until 1930 | Theodor Hämmerle |
| Sold by Jacques Français | |
| Current owner |
References
Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod (illustrated)- The Strad, January, 2004, Newsquest Specialist Media, London
- Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mitteralter bis zur Gegenwart, Willibald Freiherr von Lütgendorff, Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main (illustrated)
- Jacob Stainer "… kayserlicher diener und geigenmacher zu Absom", Rudolf Hopfner, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna (illustrated)
- Jakob Stainer: Leben und Werk des Tiroler Meisters, Walter Senn & Karl Roy, Verlag E. Bochinsky, Frankfurt
- Violins & Violinists (1969), Franz Farga, Frederick A Prager, New York (illustrated)