Alessandro Gagliano, Naples, 1710, the 'Rotondo'

Violin: 40881

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Labeled, "Alexander Gaglianus Fecit Neap. 1710."

Back: One-piece

Top: one-piece, of narrow grain on the treble side, widening toward the bass side

Scroll: of wood similar to the ribs

Ribs: unlike the wood of the back

Length of back: 35.45 cm

Upper bouts: 16.4 cm

Middle bouts: 11.1 cm

Lower bouts: 20.3 cm

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Provenance

	Rotondo
	Sold by Chanot & Chardon
	De La Laurencie
from 1933	Caressa & Français
until 1942	Emil Herrmann, New York
1942-1965	Henry Hottinger
...	...
from 1965 and in 1975	Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
...	...
in 1993 and until 1997	Alfredo Halegua
1997-2017	Anonymous
from 2017	The Masters University, Santa Clarita, California
in 2018	Sold by Benning Violins
from 2018	The Ossia Collection

Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York, New York, NY (1942) "The violin is in a very perfect state of preservation and is the finest example of Alessandro Gagliano's work known to me."

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36 Famous Italian Violins, Alex Wasinski, Herman Gordon, New York (illustrated)
The Strad, May, 1987, Roger Hargrave, London (illustrated)
Henry Hottinger Collection (illustrated)
L'Esposizione di Liuteria Antica a Cremona nel 1937, Comitato Stradivariano, Cremona (illustrated)
Private Archives - 10746
The Emil Hermann Collection - Part II, Andy Lim & Gregory Singer, Darling Publications, Cologne / New York (illustrated)
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
The Strad, essential reading for the string music world since 1890
The Strad, May, 1995, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
World of Strings, Fall, 1975, William Moennig & Son, Philadelphia (illustrated)