1734 - Violin "du Diable"

Back of two pieces of curly maple with medium curl, glued in a herringbone pattern with vertex at the top. Scroll probably to Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri.

  • 1734, Cremona
  • 35.05 cm
  • 16.4 cm
  • 10.9 cm
  • 20.4 cm
  • Mexico City, Juan Luis Prieto
  • Dendrochronological analysis by Peter Klein, Hamburg, 1998. Youngest ring is 1720
  • Arthur Saint-Léon (1849)
  • Rossel de Minet 1820; Luigi Tarisio; Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris); Arthur Saint-Léon 1849/70; Madame Fleury 1872; Eugène Fau (Castres) 1885/1910; W.E. Hill & Sons 1910/13; Richard Bennett (Southport, Lancashire) 1913/31; W.E. Hill & Sons 1972; Dr. Rene Pierre Lacombe 1972; Jacques Français; Juan Luis Prieto (Mexico City)
  • 1872, London: South Kensington special exhibition of ancient musical instruments; 1994, New York: The Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesù
  • Engel 1872; AA.VV. 1873; Hill 1931; AA.VV. 1994; Gand 1994; Biddulph 1994; Pollens 1994; Chiesa-Hargrave-Pollens 1998; Bein & Fushi 1998

creato:domenica 14 ottobre 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017