1711 - Cello "Duport"

Back of two pieces of curly maple on medium curl, glued in a herringbone pattern with apex at the top.

  • 1711, Cremona
  • 75.5 cm
  • 34 cm
  • 22.8 cm
  • 43.6 cm
  • Jean Pierre Duport 1819; Auguste-Joseph Franchomme 1842/84; Mstislav Rostropovich 1974
  • Commisioned a Stradivarius from a doctor of Lyon, after the death of these, between 1770 and 1780, the cello was taken to Paris where it was purchased by cellist Jean-Louis Duport, who at his death (1819) was inherited by his son, principal cellist of the orchestra of Lyon, who later changed profession, and at a time of economic difficulty he sold the instrument to the cellist Auguste Franchomme, who bought him advised by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.
  • 2004, Cremona: I violoncelli di Antonio Stradivari; 2012
  • Jean Pierre Duport; Louis Duport 1819-1842; August-Joseph Franchomme (and daughter) 1842-1892; W.E. Hill & Sons 1892; Baron Johann Knoop 1892; W.E. Hill & Sons 1906; John S. Phipps 1906; Horace Havemeyer 1927; Gerald F. Warburg 1968; Msistlav Rostropovich 1974
  • Hill 1902; Balfoort 1945; Doring 1945; Jalovec 1952; Henley 1961; Jalovec 1968; Gingrich 1970; Sacconi 1972; Goodkind 1972; Gugliermina 1995; Zygmuntowicz 1997; AA.VV. 2004; Faber 2004; Chiesa 2005
creato:mercoledì 6 giugno 2012
modificato:sabato 12 agosto 2017