DHV:
1220
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Niort
Auguste
Tolbecque ?
Date:
1899 C
Label Text:
[Sanctus Seraphin, Venice, 1712 ?]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
6+12
Collection:
Musée de la musique
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
E.1669.1
Head:
Angel
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Paul Chevalier; Mme I. de Beaufond, -1904
Measurements:
Body Length:
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
Museum’s website; Gétreau 1996, pp. 294, 692
Literature:
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S, head side; front 7/8, head [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
12 sympathetic strings; all 18 pegs in one pegbox. Pointed lower corners, one deep dimple each side in upper bouts; F-holes have fish-tails instead of lower eyes; rosette. Website: by Giorgio Seraphino Santo, Venice, 1712; head is typical of S. Serafin; “viola bastarda”. Repaired by Nicolas Lupot (remains of his label inside). Associated bow is E.1669.2. TGM: reattribution to Tolbecque: body shape almost identical to two basses by him (1898, 1899), based on Domenichino’s painting of St. Cecilia in the Louvre.