di Guarneri Andrea

1660/70 - Viola

The instrument is in good conditions although made ​​with "carelessness". The soundboard is in two pieces of spruce to regural vein, which presents a small fracture at the lower left board, another above the lower eye of the effe left and a more evident under the top eye of effe right. Backof two pieces of curly maple with medium-narrow curl poorly marked and irregular, with medullary rays very obvious, bonded to lightweight herringbone with vertex at the top. Scroll of maple smooth. Yellow-brown varnish.

  • 1660-70, Cremona
  • Andreas Guarnerius fecit Cremonae sub titulo Sanctaie Teresiae
  • 41.6 cm
  • 19.8 cm
  • 13.9 cm
  • 24.6 cm
  • Moscow (RU), URSS State Collection
  • Fiodor Druzhinin
  • It would have been restored after 1920.
  • Duke Meklenburg-Strelsky; Count Wielhorsky 1919; URSS State Collection 1919
  • 1988, Cremona: Stradivari e i grandi liutai cremonesi dall'URSS
  • AA. VV. 1988; Riley 1991; AA. VV. 1998; S. a. 2004
creato:giovedì 8 marzo 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017