DHV:
1212
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
Date:
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée de la musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
E.980.2.494
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Geneviève Thibault, Comtesse de Chambure, -1979; Georges Le Cerf; prov. Dijon, luthier
Measurements:
Body Length:
62.2
String Length:
56.5?
Rib Depth:
11.7
Upper Width:
30.4
Middle Width:
22.5
Bottom Width:
38.3
Information
Source:
TGM visit 9/09; museum’s website; Fleming 2001: VME 23; Gétreau 1996, p. 737
Literature:
Fleming 2001: VME 23; Gétreau 1996, p. 737
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S, head side; front 7/8, head 3/4 [color]); Khazine 2004, p. 9 (front 3/4); Fleming 2001: VME F23 (front body only), L22 (back), L23 (details) [all color]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Fleming: Double purfling on front, none on back; very coarse finish; dimensions 62.1, 30.2/22.3/36.2, 11.8; no bridge or strings when seen, so no string length. Website: Neck and tailpiece not original; worm damage. Shown in photo set up with 6 strings, but pegbox has unused holes for 7th peg, nearest to nut. Neck is short, but has room for 7 frets; has odd profile, and bandsaw marks on back; inset into table. Very dark varnish. Anne Houssay (at museum) thinks style of head is Parisian c. 1720, but body perhaps 17th-C. English, based on outline and C-holes.