Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Turin, 1780, the 'Steiner-Schweitzer'


Violin: 42751

Labeled, "Jo. Bapt. Guadagnini Cremonesis alumnus Antonii Stradivari fecit Taurini 1785."

Back: Two-piece of faint medium curl

Top: of medium grain

Scroll: plain

Ribs: of curl similar to back

Varnish: Orange-brown

Length of back: 35.3 cm


Notes:

Listed as "an Italian violin by Giovanni Battista & Gaetano Guadagnini, Turin, circa 1780" by Sotheby's in 1991.

Sotheby's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, June 6, 1991, London, Sotheby's, Sotheby's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, June 6, 1991, London, London

Provenance

Dr. Steiner-Schweizer
Sold by Emil Herrmann, New York
from 1933 Rex Underwood
in 1949 Current owner

Certificates & Documents

  • Certificate: Benjamin Koodlach, Los Angeles, CA (1976)
  • Certificate: Erich Lachmann, Berlin (1953)

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References

  • Sotheby's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, June 6, 1991, London, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London (illustrated)
  • Sotheby's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, November 22, 1990, London, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London (illustrated)
  • The Guadagnini Family of Violin Makers, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)

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