Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1734, the 'Ferni, duc de Camposelice'
Violin: 43826
Back: Two-piece
Length of back: 35.3 cm
Upper bouts: 16.4 cm
Middle bouts: 11.2 cm
Lower bouts: 20.5 cm
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Provenance
Fritz Hirt | |
until 1880 | Carolina Ferni |
from 1880 | Duc de Camposelice |
from 1895 | Charles F. Edler |
in 1913 | Charles F. Edler |
from 1913 | Ernst Kessler |
until 1926 | Emil Herrmann, New York |
from 1926 | David H. Walton |
in 1944 | Dr. Steiner-Schweizer |
until 1947 | Emil Herrmann, New York |
from 1947 | Ruggiero Ricci |
until 1958 | Louis E. Brooks |
until 1958 | Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. |
until 1991 | Clementine Miller Tangeman |
1991-2009 | Anonymous |
in 2014 | Current owner |
Known players
Cho-Liang Lin, Ruggiero Ricci
References
36 Famous Italian Violins, Alex Wasinski, Herman Gordon, New York (illustrated)
The Strad, September, 1995, Ken Smith, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
Italian Violin Makers (1964), Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964 (illustrated)
Masterpieces of the Great Violin Makers, Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., New York (illustrated)
Masterpieces of the Great Violin Makers (1918 edition), Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., New York (illustrated)
Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (illustrated)
Rare Violins in the Possession of Emil Herrmann: 1926-7, Emil Herrmann, Berlin (illustrated)
Strings Magazine, September 2012
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)