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Harpsichord
about 1550
Object Place: Naples, Italy
Medium/Technique
Maple
Dimensions
Length 191.5 cm, width 67.6 cm, case height 19.4 cm (Length 75 3/8 in., width 26 5/8 in., case height 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund
Accession Number1986.518
CollectionsMusical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
ProvenanceBefore 1900, Leopoldo Franciolini, Florence, Italy; about 1900, sold by Franciolini to the Musikmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden; early 1970s, sold by Musikmuseet to Michael Thomas, London, England; about 1980, sold by Thomas to Otmar Seemann, Vienna, Austria. November 25, 1983, sold by Sotheby's London, lot 154, to Hugh Gough, New York; 1986, sold by Gough to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 22, 1986)
Tenore del passo e mezo con sei mutanze, 1576
Composed by Antonio Valente
Performed by Diane Heffner