1699 - Violin "Lafont"

Soundboard of spruce to very fine vein at the center, which widens towards the flanks. Back of one piece of curly maple cut on the slab and with narrow curl just regular horizontal. Ribs of curly maple cut and on the quarter and of horizontal narrow curl, the lower rib in one piece. Scroll of curly maple with a light medium narrow curl. Orange-brown varnish.

  • 1699, Cremona
  • Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1699 (original) and "Choisi par Lafont"
  • 35.45 cm
  • 16.6 cm
  • 10.75 cm
  • 20.4 cm
  • Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Cincinnati, January 9, 1920; Emil Herrmann, Berlin, New York, Easton, October 10, 1931; William Moennig & Son, Philadelphia, June 22, 1938
  • Charles Philippe Lafont; Chauvin; de Nanteuil; M. Sayvé (Versailles) 1871; Caressa & Français (Paris) 1915; Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. 1915/18; Dr. Eugenio Sturchio 1918/21; Albert Saffe (New York) 1921/31; William Moennig & Son (Philadelphia) 1938; Dr. Charles A. Haff 1938/45; Dr. Donald Haff (Northampton, PA) 1987
  • Doring 1945; Goodkind 1972; William Moennig & Son 1984; Sotheby's 1987; Gand 1994; Thöne-Röhrmann 2010
creato:martedì 31 dicembre 2013
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017