Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1737, the 'Joachim'
Violin: 40412
Photo courtesy of Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. For more information, contact Archivescenter@si.edu. (Digital images created using a handheld digital camera.)
Back: One-piece, from the same log as the "Turkish" of 1737
Scroll: not original to the instrument, by Giuseppe filius Andreae and probably originally from the 'Prince Doria' Guarneri.
Varnish: Dark red
Length of back: 35.25 cm
Upper bouts: 16.5 cm
Middle bouts: 11.05 cm
Lower bouts: 20.5 cm
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Notes:
Emil Herrmann's note: "scroll by Mantegazza".The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Washington, DC
Provenance
| Joseph Joachim | |
| in 1939 | Wilhelm Kux |
| until 1965 | Henry Hottinger |
| 1965-1966 | Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. |
| ... | ... |
| from 1966 and in 2015 | Current owner |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: Peter Klein, Hamburg (1998) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1721.
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References
The Strad 2006 Calendar, Newsquest Specialist Media, London (illustrated)- Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesú (2 volumes), Carlos Chiesa, John Dilworth, Roger Graham Hargrave, Stewart Pollens, Duane Rosengard & Eric Wen, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)
- Henry Hottinger Collection (illustrated)
- Italian Violin Makers (1964), Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964 (illustrated)
- Private Archives - 10842
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
- The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesù - Exhibition, Peter Biddulph, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)
The Strad 2006 Calendar, Newsquest Specialist Media, London (illustrated)
