di Guarneri Giuseppe Bartolomeo "JHS"

1745 - Violin "Leduc"

Back of two pieces of curly maple with broad curl, glued in a herringbone pattern with vertex at the top. Red varnish.

  • 1743, Cremona
  • authentic, dated 1745
  • 35.4 cm
  • 16.7 cm
  • 11.1 cm
  • 20.4 cm
  • W. E. Hill & Sons, London; Wurlitzer, New York; Jacques Français, New York, 1990
  • Dendrochronology report of Peter Klein, Hamburg (1998) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1726; treble side matches both sides of the 1738 "Kemp"
  • Henryk Szeryng (1970/88)
  • Luigi Tarisio; Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris); LeDuc 1880; David Laurie (Glasgow) 1880; John Adam; Richard Bennett (Southport, Lancashire); W.E. Hill & Sons 1891/ Ernest Nicolini 1891; W.E. Hill & Sons 1894; Hart & Son 1894/97; R. D. Waddell (Glasgow, Scotland) 1899/1923; Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. 1923/24; John S. Phipps 1925/70; Henryk Szeryng 1970/88; Jacques Français 1998
  • 1994, New York: The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesù
  • Believed to be the last instrument of Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri, it may have been finished in 1745 by his widow, Catherine Rota.
  • S. a. 1899 (II); Henderson 1900; Piper 1924 (II); Wurlitzer 1925; Hill 1931, Jalovec 1952; Jalovec 1963 (II); Roth 1988; Temianka 1988; AA.VV. 1994; Gand 1994; Pollens 1994; Chiesa-Hargrave-Pollens 1998; S. a. 1998 (III); Hargrave 2000 (II)
creato:mercoledì 17 ottobre 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017