Instrument

  • ID: 1389
  • Type: violin
  • Maker: Antonio Stradivari
  • Year built: 1714
  • City: Cremona
  • Name: De Barrau, Joachim
 
Back: One-piece

Notes

Dated 1715.
Stradivarius-Guarnerius del Gesù: Catalogue descriptif de leurs instruments (Facsimile of Gand's notes from 1870-91), Charles-Eugène Gand, Les Amis de la Musique, Spa, 1994.

Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
...         
Baron Johann Knoop  1911       
C. G. Meier (London)      1911   
...         
Professor Karl Klinger         
Richard Mendelsohn (Berlin)         
W.E. Hill & Sons         
...         
Joseph Joachim   1881  1897    For members only 
Dietrich A. Meier (London)  1873      For members only 
Charles Wilmotte (Antwerp)    1870    For members only 
de Barrau         
...         

Current owner Current owner
Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician

References

Caressa & Francais Notebook (c1900 - 1936), part of the Jacques Francais Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..

How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945.

Stradivarius-Guarnerius del Gesù: Catalogue descriptif de leurs instruments (Facsimile of Gand's notes from 1870-91), Charles-Eugène Gand, Les Amis de la Musique, Spa, 1994.

"The Baron Knoop", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, September-October, 1954, 1954.