di Stradivari Antonio

1699 - Violin "Lafont - Lady Tennant"

Soundboard of spruce to narrow vein, that widens at the flanks. Back of one piece of curly maple with narrow discontinuous curl descending slightly to the left. Ribs of curly maple cut on the quarter and narrow curl. Scroll of curly maple on medium curl. Golden-brown varnish.

  • 1699, Cremona
  • Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 169
  • 35.5 cm
  • Anonymous Stradivari Society Patron
  • W. E. Hill & Sons, London, March 20, 1900; Bicentenario Stradivariano, Cremona, October 27, 1937; Max Möller & Son, Amsterdam, May 22, 1944; Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., New York
  • Dendrochronological analysis of the soundboard, by John C. Topham, Surrey, February 6, 2003, which resulted in the correspondence of the rings to other works of Stradivari: viola Archinto 1696; two in 1699, one of them to the Musée de la Musique in Paris; violin 1700s.
  • Charles Philippe Lafont; Ulf Hoelscher; Yang Liu 2005; Yossif Ivanov 2010; Xiang Gao 2007
  • Charles Philippe Lafont 1839; W.E. Hill & Sons 1900; Sir Charles Tennant 1900; Lady Tennant 1900/25; Max Möller & Son (Amsterdam) 1925/44; Dr. Bernhard Sprengel (Hannover) 1944/81; Anonymous 1981/2005; Anonymous Stradivari Society Patron 2005
  • 1937, Cremona: Mostra di Liuteria Antica Cremonese; 1963, Stresa: Mostra di Antonio Stradivari
  • Hill 1902; S. a. 1937; AA. VV. 1938; Möller 1938; S. a. 1962 (III); S. a. 1963; Goodkind 1972; Sotheby's 1983 (II); S. a. 1986 (V); S. a. 2007 (VIII); Christie's 2005 (III); Goetz 2005; Ingles-Dilworth 2006; Bein & Fushi 2010
creato:giovedì 8 marzo 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017