DHV:
126
Tourin ID:
BOYER 1
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Lyon ?
Gaspar
Tieffenbrucker ?
Date:
1560 C ?
Label Text:
Gaspar Duiffobrugcar / A la coste Sainct Sebastien [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Animal
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Serge & Fréderic Boyer, Paris; Charles Enel (d.1954); Jean-Baptiste Bonaventure Roquefort, Paris (1777-1834)
Measurements:
Body Length:
62.5
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
30.7
Middle Width:
21
Bottom Width:
35
Information
Source:
PT visit, 1977/78?
Literature:
Sandys & Forster 1864, 198
Photographs:
Aguttes 12/9/22, lot 42 (FB+S, label line 2 through C-hole [color]); Mackey 2019, p. 488 (back body only, head side [color]); [unpublished, from J-M Renard: F, F+B body only, head 3/4 (color)]; [by PT: F+B (color); by TGM: back, in shop window (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Aguttes 2022/12/09, lot 42 [est. €250-300,000 : ?!]
Elaborate picture covers entire back (bearded man seated under canopy: Moses, after Michelangelo’s sculpture); inlaid fingerboard (lacking upper portion); 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. According to Sandys & Forster, “a salamander, the device of Francis I, was carved on the neck”; their source was Choron’s Dictionnaire historique des muisiciens, artistes, at amateurs, morts ou vivants (2/1817). Per J.M. Renard (at AMIS 2007), appraised and repaired by Vuillaume, so perhaps also made by him. Back is old but has been reshaped, with both deletions from and additions to the picture; ribs from a cello; pegbox has been widened. Provenance: C. Enel’s shop continued by his pupil F. Boyer (1926-2005), then son S. Boyer (b. 1955).