Tomasso Balestrieri
Auction price history
Highest auction price
£262,196
| Type | Details | Sold | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | Original label of this violin, dated 1792, is in all probably the one in the Emil Herrmann label collection | March 2025 | £240,000 |
| Violin | Labelled Thomas Balestrieri Cremonensis Fecit Mantuae Anno 1767 | October 2023 | £90,000 |
| Violin | 35.7 cm 1750 c. (later scroll) [Ascribed to] | October 2009 | £89,885 |
| Violin | 35.0 cm Mantua, 1760 c. | June 2008 | £40,800 |
| Violin | 35.4 cm Mantua, 1760 c. | March 2008 | £76,050 |
| Violin | 35.2 cm Mantua, 1760 c. (top probably by his pupil "Giofreddo Cappa") | May 2007 | £15,842 |
| Viola | 41.0 cm Mantua, 1774 | October 2006 | £262,196 |
| Violin | 35.1 cm Mantua, 1785 | February 2006 | £232,000 |
| Violin | Mantua, 1781 | November 2005 | £134,215 |
| Violin | Mantua, 1764 | November 2005 | £60,000 |
| Violin | Mantua, 1759 | October 2004 | £49,138 |
| Violin | 1760 c. | March 2003 | £89,600 |
| Violin | 1771 | December 2002 | £55,996 |
| Violin | 1767 | November 2002 | £106,192 |
| Violin | 1760 | May 2001 | £23,404 |
| Violin | 1767 | May 2000 | £66,000 |
| Violin | 1788 | June 1997 | £69,700 |
| Violin | 17-- | June 1995 | £78,500 |
| Violin | 1788 | November 1994 | £84,000 |
| Violin | 1765 c. | November 1993 | £41,100 |
| Violin | 1760 c. | March 1992 | £52,800 |
| Violin | 1768 | June 1990 | £25,300 |
| Violin | 1778 | March 1990 | £93,500 |
| Violin | 17-- | June 1989 | £66,000 |
| Violin | 1750 c. | November 1987 | £26,400 |
| Violin | 1761 | November 1985 | £30,800 |
| Violin | 1771 | June 1985 | £37,840 |
| Violin | 17-- | June 1984 | £31,693 |
| Viola | 39.7 cm 1760 c. | June 1984 | £22,638 |
| Violin | 1750 | April 1982 | £10,450 |
| Violin | 1763 | March 1982 | £9,167 |
Biographies
John Dilworth
BALESTRIERI, Tomasso Born circa. 1735, d.c.1790 Mantua Italy. Referred to himself on his labels as Cremonese, but to date no record of him has been found in the city. The likelihood is that he was born in one of the villages between Cremona and Mantua. The leading maker in Mantua, following Pietro Guarneri, Antonio Zanotti, and his presumed teacher Camillo Camilli. Early work has a Camilli-like rotundity and lightness, but through the greater part of his career worked in a slightly coarsened Cremonese style, with an authentic technique acquired through Camilli from Guarneri. A bold flat-arched Stradivarian model with a powerful sound, but substituting the great Cremonese varnish with a slightly harder recipe, tending towards a greenish golden-brown. Open scroll with small chamfer, recalling Storioni. Thomas Balestrieri / Cremonensis / Fecit Mantuae anno 1751
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