Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

The Acquisitions

Musical Instruments: July 2011–June 2012


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Viola d'amore

1785
Johann Franz Placht
Overall: 76.2 x 22.9 cm (30 x 9 in.)
Maple, spruce, ebony

Classification: Musical instruments

Object Place: Schönbach, Austria

Accession number: 2011.2143

Provenance/Ownership History: By the 1960s, Anne Gombosi (b. 1907 – d. 1978), Newton, MA; 1978, by descent to her son, Martin G. Gombosi (b. 1949 – d. 2004), Needham, MA; 2004, by descent to his widow, Susan Smolin, Needham; 2011, gift of Susan Smolin to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)

Partial gift of Susan Smolin in memory of Anne and Otto Gombosi and Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Edwin M. Ripin Collection—Friends of the Collection Fund