Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1744, the 'Prince of Orange, Wald, Hoffmann'

Violin: 42581

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Bearing its original label.

Back: One-piece

Length of back: 35.5 cm

Upper bouts: 16.55 cm

Middle bouts: 11.15 cm

Lower bouts: 20.5 cm

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". . . Shortly afterward [1921], the violin entered the international market through Emil Herrmann and Max Möller. It was given the name 'Prince of Orange' by one or both of them, perhaps in a vague allusion to Baron Bentinck."

Cremona 1730-1750: the Olympus of Violin Making, Christopher Reuning, editor, Cremona 1730-1750: the Olympus of Violin Making, Cremona

BARTOLOMEO GIUSEPPE GUARNERI 'DEL GESù': BIOGRAPHY AND PRICE HISTORY
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Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù'

Provenance

	Sold by Max Möller & Son
	Charles Adolph Maucotel
	Louis Zimmermann
until 1868	Baron Arnold A. Bentinck van Nijenhuis
1868-1881	Charles Windham Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington
from 1880	David Johnson
in 1885	William Crompton
until 1894	W. E. Hill & Sons
from 1894	Gerrit Veerman
until 1897	W. E. Hill & Sons
in 1897	K. B. Dvorak
...	...
from 1897 and in 1919	Karel Hoffmann
in 1921	Wald
...	...
in 1937	Jan W. L. van Oordt
until 1941	Max Möller & Son
from 1941	R. F. Zinkann
in 1952	Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
until 1958	Emil Herrmann, New York
in 1958	Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
from 1958	George Schlieps
from 1958	David Nadien
in 1967	George Schlieps & Son
...	...
from 1974	Czech State Collection

Known players

Josef Suk (II)

Certificates & Documents

Certificate: W. H. Hammig & Co., Berlin (2013)
Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (2013)
Certificate: Wurlitzer, New York, NY
Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York, New York, NY
Certificate: Max Möller & Son, Amsterdam

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References

Classical Music - Streaming Classical Music
Cremona 1730-1750: the Olympus of Violin Making, Christopher Reuning, editor, Consorzio Liutai Antonio Stradivari, Cremona (illustrated)
The Strad, March, 1967, London
Italiaansche Vioolbouw, Max Möller & Son, Max Möller N. V., Amsterdam
L'Esposizione di Liuteria Antica a Cremona nel 1937, Comitato Stradivariano, Cremona (illustrated)
Private Archives - 10842
Private Papers
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)