Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Piacenza, 1744, the 'Foltzer'
Violin: 40999
Bearing its original label, "Joannes Baptista filius Laurentji Gua / dagnini fecit Placentiae 1744."
Back: in one piece of quarter-cut maple with medium-width flame descending from the treble side.
Top: in two pieces of spruce with broad-width grain broadening towards the edges.
Ribs: and head of similar wood.
Varnish: golden brown over a lighter ground.
Length of back: 35.5 cm
Upper bouts: 16.7 cm
Middle bouts: 11.3 cm
Lower bouts: 20.8 cm
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Provenance
in 1937 | Camillo Foltzer |
... | ... |
in 1967 | Rolf Habisreutinger |
... | ... |
in 1984 | Sold by Bongartz's |
from 1984 | Geoffrey Wharton |
in 1989 | Sold by Christie's |
Known players
Geoffrey Wharton
References
- Bongartz advertisement
Bongartz's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, April 9, 1984, Cologne, Bongartz's, Bongartz's, Cologne (illustrated)
Christie's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, March 31, 1989, London, Christie's, Christie's, London (illustrated)
Die Kunst des Geigenbaues (1997), Otto Möckel, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Berlin, 1997 (illustrated)
Feine Streichinstrumente und Bögen, Geigenauktionen Bongartz, Aachen (illustrated)
The Strad, January, 1967, London (illustrated)
L'Esposizione di Liuteria Antica a Cremona nel 1937, Comitato Stradivariano, Cremona (illustrated)
Taxe der Streichinstrumente (6th edition), Albert Fuchs, Musikverlag Friedrich Hofmeister, Frankfurt am Main (illustrated)
- The Guadagnini Family of Violin Makers, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago