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)
36 Famous Italian Violins, Alex Wasinski, Herman Gordon, New York (illustrated)
