Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, c. 1715-22, the 'Marteau Habisreuthinger'

Violin: 45112

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Labeled, "Joseph Guarnerius fecit / Cremonae anno 1731."

A collaboration between 'filius' and 'del Gesu'.

Back: in two-pieces of quarter sawn maple with broad curl ascending steeply from the centre-joint to the edges.

Top: of irregular grain, also by Del Gesù but made later in the 1740s

Scroll: plain

Ribs: of medium figure

Varnish: Golden

Length of back: 35.4 cm

Upper bouts: 16.5 cm

Middle bouts: 10.8 cm

Lower bouts: 20.4 cm

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Provenance

Gérard Poulet, Henri Marteau, Maxim Vengerov

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Alte Meistergeigen: Band III und IV, Die Cremoneser Schule / Antonius Stradivarius, Verband Schweizerischer Geigenbaumeister, Verlag Edwin Bochinsky, Frankfurt am Main (illustrated)
Christie's Important Musical Instruments and Printed Music Auction Catalog, June 21, 1988, London, Christie's, Christie's, London (illustrated)
Correspondence with Cozio member, December, 2006
Encyclopedia of Violin-Makers, Volume 1, Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn Ltd., London (illustrated)
Jose Sanchez-Penzo: The Way Famous String Instruments Went
Violin Passion