Francesco Stradivari, Cremona, 1742, the 'Salabue'
Violin: 42845
Bearing its original label.
Back: One-piece, cut on the slab
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Notes:
"When writing about that instrument he [Cozio di Salabue] states there is 'un tasello sotto l'F della quarta bislonglo per riempire un groppo' [a patch below the f-hole of the G string to fill a knot along the grain]. This instrument is very likely the Salabue Francesco Stradivari presntly owned by James Warren, which exhibits a wood fill in precisely the same place. The fill is almost identical in appearance to the one on the treble side of the fingerboard in Le Messie."Le Messie, Stewart Pollens, Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XVI, No. 1, Flushing, NY
Count Cozio's Notes, June 3, 1816: "Measurements of my violin made by Francesco Stradivari in 1730, with label belonging to his father. . . . Long and wide arching. The top is wave-like, and crossed by a rectangular patch under the F-hole on the G string in order to fill a knot. Back and sides have no grain. The neck is good work with tight grain. Under the back, two thicknesses are inserted in patches; the upper [thickness is] in the purfling, and the other out of it. The purfling does not turn up in the corners. Good and even voice, but not as strong as the other three [violins] made by Stradivari described above. Generally speaking the work is well done." (pp. 242-43) and neat.
Memoirs of a Violin Collector: Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue, Memoirs of a Violin Collector: Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue, Baltimore
Provenance
| Luigi Tarisio | |
| Sold by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume | |
| until 1775 | Paolo Stradivari |
| from 1775 | Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue |
| until 1959 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| 1959-1965 | Henry Hottinger |
| from 1965 | Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. |
| in 1972 | Mrs. Rembert Wurlitzer |
| ... | ... |
| in 1999 | Current owner |
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: Rembert Wurlitzer Inc., New York, NY (2013) To Mr. Hottinger: "Only recently we had the good fortune to see in Paris another violin by Francesco with its original label, and this along with the example now in your possession, are the only ones with original labels known to us."
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References
…And They Made Violins in Cremona from Renaissance to Romantic Era, Conzorzia Liutai & Archetti A. Stradivari Cremona, Cremona (illustrated)- A Thousand Mornings of Music, Arnold Gingrich, Crown Publishers, New York (illustrated)
- Count Cozio of Salabue: Violin Making and Collecting in Piedmont, Giovanni Accornero, Ivan Epicoco & Eraldo Guerci, Edizione Il Salabue (illustrated)
- Henry Hottinger Collection (illustrated)
- Italian Violin Makers (2001), Teruhiko Sato, Nippon Gengakki, Tokyo (illustrated)
- Ars Musica, Aloys Greither, Bayer AG, Heft 11 (illustrated)
- Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XVI, No. 1, Stewart Pollens, The Queens College Press, Flushing, NY
- Memoirs of a Violin Collector: Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue, Brandon Frazier, Baltimore
- Private Archives - 10746
- Private Archives - 10842
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Box 44 (illustrated)
- The Late Cremonese Violin Makers, Dmitry Gindin, Editioni Novecento, Cremona (illustrated)
- The Stradivari Legacy, Carlo Chiesa & Duane Rosengard, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)
- Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, NY (illustrated)
- W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)
- World of Strings, Fall, 1975, William Moennig & Son, Philadelphia (illustrated)