Violon Italien Lot n° 25

by Giovanni Battista GABRIELLI (1716 - 1771) bearing the handwritten label "Gio Batista Gabbrieli 1757". Two-piece maple back with regular waves rising towards the edge, ribs and headstock of the same wood, spruce top with tight pores in the center, widening at the edges, gilded brown varnish. With old Gustave BERNARDEL Succes invoice. In its speckled maple veneer table case. (Various restorations, lining at the heel of the neck, small breaks...)