1656 - Violin "King Louis XIV"
The top is of spruce, with double prufling and painted fleur-de-lis on the beaks and under the tailpiece. The back is one-piece of varied medium curl, with double purfling and painted fleur-de-lys on the beaks and above and under the nose. The ribs are of maple cut on the quarter with painted fleur-de-lys and decorations near the beaks and the end button. The neck is original restored. The scroll is of curly maple with painted fleur-de-lys, the peg box is later. The varnish is golden-orange-brown.
- 1656, Cremona
- Washington (USA), Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History
- Emil Herrmann, Berlin, New York, Easton, 1949
- Re Luigi XIV di Francia; Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris) 1855//68; Liodor Panajeff (Panaev); Principe Nicholas Youssoupov; Emil Herrmann 1940; Gerald F. Warburg 1940; Emil Herrmann 1949; Anna E. Clark (New York) 1949; Corcoran Gallery of Arts, Washington D.C.; Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod; Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History 2000
- Wechsberg 1953; S. a. 1983; Sand 1987; Meucci 2000; Axelrod 2002; Lim-Singer 2006; Biddulph-Chaudière 2008
- Alex Vuilleumier, 2010
| creato: | domenica 31 marzo 2013 |
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| modificato: | giovedì 23 marzo 2017 |