Iconography Index
Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..
Black-and-white photos (front, back, scroll & f-hole): "The "Youssoupoff" Amati", The Strad, March, 1967, 1967.
Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): Amati Quartet, Ex-John Jay & Sandra Day O'Conner, Machold Rare Violins, 2000.
Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): The Emil Herrmann Collection - Part I, Andy Lim & Gregory Singer, Darling Publications, Cologne / New York, 2006.
Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Color photos (front, back & side): Antonio Stradivari - Catalogue of the 2008 Exhibit in Montpelier, Peter Biddulph & Frédéric Chaudière, instrument notes by John Dilworth, Musée Fabre / Actes Sud, Montpelier, 2008.
Color photos (front, back & side): Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod, 2002.
Color photos (front, back, side & scroll): Amati Quartet, Ex-John Jay & Sandra Day O'Conner, Machold Rare Violins, 2000.
Notes
- Vuillaume made several copies of the instrument before selling to Youssoupov. The original was stolen from a Washington museum in 1967.
- "The "Youssoupoff" Amati", The Strad, March, 1967, 1967.
- According to Herrmann, Vuillaume sold the instrument to Liodor de Panajeff, whose family maintained possession until 1930.
- Amati Quartet, Ex-John Jay & Sandra Day O'Conner, Machold Rare Violins, 2000.
- "The earliest instrument, the 'King Louis XIV', made in 1656, is preseumed to be the first ornamented violin in existence. 'Ornamented' is an understatement. It is delicately inlaid with rubies and emeralds in a fleur-de-lys pattern."
- "Harmonious Blend", Barbara L. Sand, The Strad, July, 1987, 1987.
- "In 1966, while members of this quartet [the Claremont String Quartet of the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem] were dining in a Brooklyn restaurant, the jewelled Amati was stolen from the cellist's car. Oddly enough the cello, also in the car, was not taken. The whereabouts of the violin or who might have played it remained a mystery for five years, protected by the uniqueness and fame of the violin, which could not be bought or sold legitimately without accounting for its recent history. When the instrument appeared at Jacques Francais' New York shop one day in 1971, he recognized it immediately; it was returned to the Corcoran Gallery intact and undamaged."
- "Ex-Louis XIV Nicola Amati, 1656", The Strad, August, 1983, 1983.
- "If he [Emil Herrmann] had to choose one violin from all the treasures he has ever handled, he would pick the grand-pattern Nicolo Amati, made in 1656, with double purfling and tiny rubies and emeralds inlaid in the wood."
- "Trustee in Fiddledale - I", Joseph Wechsberg, The New Yorker, October 17, 1953.
Provenance
Current owner
Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician
Players
Current player
Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments
Certificates
Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York, 1949
References
Amati Quartet, Ex-John Jay & Sandra Day O'Conner, Machold Rare Violins, 2000.
Antonio Stradivari - Catalogue of the 2008 Exhibit in Montpelier, Peter Biddulph & Frédéric Chaudière, instrument notes by John Dilworth, Musée Fabre / Actes Sud, Montpelier, 2008.
Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod, 2002.
The Emil Herrmann Collection - Part I, Andy Lim & Gregory Singer, Darling Publications, Cologne / New York, 2006.
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..
"Ex-Louis XIV Nicola Amati, 1656", The Strad, August, 1983, 1983.
"Harmonious Blend", Barbara L. Sand, The Strad, July, 1987, 1987.
"The "Youssoupoff" Amati", The Strad, March, 1967, 1967.
"Trustee in Fiddledale - I", Joseph Wechsberg, The New Yorker, October 17, 1953.
The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
