Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Milan, 1754
Violin: 43665
Labeled, “Joannes Baptista Guadagnini Placentius fecit Mediolani 1754.”
Back: Two-piece
Varnish: Orange-red
Length of back: 35.2 cm
Upper bouts: 16.8 cm
Middle bouts: 11.3 cm
Lower bouts: 20.5 cm
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Notes:
Jacques Francais notes: ". . .beautiful specimen but thin in the back. . ."The Jacques Francais 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
| in 1950 | Sold by Henry Werro |
| Leonard Posner | |
| in 2013 | Anonymous |
| Current owner |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: Sondre Lie, Oslo (2026) Dates the latest ring of the bass and treble side as 1747 and 1741, respectively.
Certificate: Henry Werro (photocopy), Bern (1956)- Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons (photocopy), London (1938)
- Certificate: Bein & Fushi, Inc (photocopy), Chicago, IL
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References
- Violins & Violinists, November, 1950, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Box 56
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)