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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1and became the property of Herr Rehatschek, who bequeathed it to Ole Bull. It was exhibited by this artist in London, in 1862. Mr. Pearce does not say upon what authority his statement is founded. It may be as well to point out that Gasparo da Salò is not supposed to have been at work earlier than 1560, and by that time Cellini had retired to Florence, and was busy chiefly with the settlement of all his mundane affairs. He died in 1570, so that Gasparo's fame must have culminated in an extremely rapid manner for those
3Gasparo da Salò, In Brescia.
5FIG. 1. TICKET OF GASPARO DA SALÒ.
7days to have attracted the attention of such highly distinguished artistic circles, and for his work to have merited adornment by such peerless hands. The statement may have some explicit corroboration of which I am not aware. It certainly needs it. M. Fetis mentions that a celebrated English amateur, Mr. M. S. Forster, possessed a Gasparo da Salò, which bore date 1613, but if, as I have before said, it be true that the tickets of this master are never dated, this and other specimens purporting to come from his hands will have a hard fight to establish their integrity. In the museum of the Conservatoire at Paris, there is a violoncello and a bass by
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