Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, c. 1730, the 'Corti, Tolstopiatow, Lvoff'
Violin: 42441
Labeled, "Joseph Guarnerius fecit Cremonę anno 1730."
Back: In one piece of slab cut maple.
Varnish: Golden-brown
Length of back: 35.4 cm
Upper bouts: 16.3 cm
Middle bouts: 10.9 cm
Lower bouts: 20.1 cm
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Provenance
| in 1822 | Louis Benoît Robert |
| from 1822 | Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue |
| in c. 1830 | Sold by Luigi Tarisio |
| ... | ... |
| in c. 1840 | Sold by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume |
| ... | ... |
| in 1860 | Alexis Feodorovich Lvov |
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| in c. 1880 | Tolstopjatov |
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| c. 1900-c. 1918 | Andrej Ivanovich Letunowski |
| 1919-c. 1928 | Mischa Mischakoff |
| in 1928 | Sold by Rudolph H. Wurlitzer |
| in 1928 | Carl Fredrik Helmer Nordberger |
| in 1928 | Sold by Arthur Voss |
| in 1929 | Sold by Emil Herrmann, New York |
| 1929-1951 | Mario Corti |
| ... | ... |
| in 1965 | Arnold Schwechter |
| ... | ... |
| in 1978 and until 2008 | Current owner |
Known players
Toshiya Eto
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: Sondre Lie, Oslo (2025) Dates the latest ring of the bass and treble side as 1683 and 1695, respectively.
Certificate: Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (1939)- Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York, New York, NY (1929)
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References
- In Competition
Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Hamma & Co., Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven (illustrated)- Memoirs of a Violin Collector: Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue, Brandon Frazier, Baltimore
- Private Archives - 10842, Wurlitzer
- The Emil Hermann Collection - Part II, Andy Lim & Gregory Singer, Darling Publications, Cologne / New York (illustrated)
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
- The Strad, July, 1965, London (illustrated)