Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1733, the 'Consolo'
Violin: 44397
Bearing its original label.
Back: One-piece of wide curl descending from right to left
Top: of pine of narrow grain opening out towards the flanks
Scroll: almost plain
Ribs: of narrow curl
Varnish: Orange-brown
Length of back: 35.2 cm
Upper bouts: 16.5 cm
Middle bouts: 11.2 cm
Lower bouts: 20.6 cm
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Provenance
Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons | |
in 1876 | Baron Consolo |
until 1909 | Oswald Möckel |
from 1909 | Bronislaw Huberman |
in 1925 | Arve Arvesen |
until 1936 | Emil Herrmann, New York |
... | ... |
from 1936 and in 1956 | Albert F. Metz |
1956-1960 | Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. |
from 1960 | Oscar J. Weldon |
until 1974 | Elaine Joyce Weldon |
in 1974 | Sold by Sotheby's |
from 1974 | John & Arthur Beare |
Known players
Patricia Travers, Stoika Milanova
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: Rembert Wurlitzer Inc., New York, NY (1960)
Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York, New York, NY (1938)
Certificate: Oswald Möckel, Berlin (1907)
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References
The Strad, 1908, London, Aug 1908 (illustrated)
The Strad, April, 1974, London (illustrated)
- Emil Herrmann Papers, 1910-1947, The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998 (Box 90), Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Italian Violin Makers (1964), Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964 (illustrated)
Die Kunst Des Geigenbaues (1930), Otto Möckel, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig (illustrated)
- Private Archives - 10842
Sotheby's Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, April 25, 1974, London, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London (illustrated)