Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Musical Instruments: July 2009–June 2011
Guitar
1803
Giovanni Battista Fabricatore
Spruce, rosewood, boxwood, mother-of-pearl, bone
Classification: Musical instruments
Object Place: Naples, Italy
Accession number: 2010.612
Provenance/Ownership History: Before 2003, private owner, Rome, Italy; by November 2003, presumably sold by private owner to Babuino Casa d'Aste, Rome; November 2003, sold by Babuino to Lorenzo Frignani, Modena, Italy; 2010, sold by Frignani to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 2010)
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Edwin M. Ripin Collection—Friends of the Collection Fund