Domenico Montagnana, Venice, 1737, the 'Persinger'
Violin: 43813
Back: Two-piece
Length of back: 35.8 cm
Upper bouts: 17 cm
Middle bouts: 11.2 cm
Lower bouts: 20.6 cm
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Notes:
Emil Herrmann notes: "ex-Persinger. . .Corpus is Matteo Gofriller, Schnecke wahrscheinlich Tononi. . ."The Jacques Français 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
Hill notes: "Head by Gobetti."
W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive, W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive
Provenance
| - | Baron Frank Sellière |
| - | Jules Garein |
| - | Louis Persinger |
| until 1854 | Luigi Tarisio |
| from 1854 | Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume |
| in 1915 | Sold by Lyon & Healy |
| until 1918 | Chaloner B. Schley |
| in 1922 | Sold by Lyon & Healy |
| in 1924 | Sold by Hamma & Co. |
| ... | ... |
| in 2007 | Los Angeles Philharmonic |
References
Alte Geigen (Hamma, circa 1910), Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (illustrated)- Berühmte Geigen und ihre Schicksale, P. J. Tonger, Cologne (illustrated)
- Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mitteralter bis zur Gegenwart, Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff, Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main (illustrated)
- Italian Violin Makers (1964), Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964 (illustrated)
- Lyon & Healy Rare Old Violins, Violas & Violoncellos (1915), Lyon & Healy, Chicago (illustrated)
- Lyon & Healy, Rare Old Violins, Violas & Violonceollos (1916), Lyon & Healy, Chicago (illustrated)
- Lyon & Healy, Rare Old Violins, Violas & Violoncellos (February, 1921), Lyon & Healy, Chicago (illustrated)
- Lyon & Healy Rare Old Violins, Violas & Violoncellos (August, 1919), Lyon & Healy, Chicago (illustrated)
Marquis Violins- Lyon & Healy Catalog of Rare Old Violins, 1922, Lyon & Healy, Chicago (illustrated)
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
- W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)