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