DHV:
1249
Tourin ID:
Size:
Tenor
Place Made:
Maker:
Date:
Label Text:
Joannes Marcus [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Guitar
Current Location:
F
Nice
No. of Strings:
5 (+5)
Collection:
Musée du Palais Lascaris
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
C.37 (Fonds Gautier 1755)
Head:
Heart
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Antoine Gautier, Nice, after 1878-1904
Measurements:
Body Length:
60
String Length:
49.8
Rib Depth:
6.1
Upper Width:
22.3
Middle Width:
18.2
Bottom Width:
29
Information
Source:
TGM visit 5/00; Thevenon 1998, p. 82
Literature:
Adelson 2017, p. 31; Bran-Ricci 2006, pp. 162-63; La Grandville 2000, pp. 3, 5; Thevenon 1998, p. 82
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F [color]); Bran-Ricci 2006, p. 163 (back and treble shoulder); La Grandville 2000, p. 3 (front [color]); Thevenon 1998, p. 82 (front, head back [color]); [by TGM: FB+S, head front, rosette]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece (?) table with very slight arching, small parchment rosette with 6-pointed star. Arched back, no fold, with mostly indistinct and irregular flame; shallow ribs of similar wood. Neck currently unfretted and too short for a 7th fret; apparently integral with pegbox, which has open back and 10 holes (top 5 were plugged and redrilled farther up, according to catalogue during 1997 restoration by Atelier Véro-Dodat, Paris); one peg missing, and only 5 currently used, in admittedly “hypothetical” set-up for 1998 exhibition (including unfinished violin-style bridge). (Gautier had it strung with sympathetic strings and called it a baryton.) Fingerboard and tailpiece new, of solid blond wood; hookbar is internal. Thevenon 1998 dimensions (taken on the back): 61.0, -/18.0/29.0, 6.3, -; probably “un ‘arrangement’, porvu d’une etiquette prestigieuse.” Bran-Ricci 2006: a composite, some parts well-made but others not; tailpiece has pencil inscription “Marengo” = piedmontese luthier Rinaldi Romano Marengo, c. 1890. Cf. MILB 1, also cornerless and with “Joannes Marcus” label. Museum’s website: “ténor de viole”.