DHV:
1341
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Niort
Auguste
Tolbecque
Date:
1899
Label Text:
Fait par A[ugus]te Tolbecque à Niort l’an 1899 / AT
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
F
Niort
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée Bernard d'Agesci
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
989.1.1
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
74.5
String Length:
Rib Depth:
13.1
Upper Width:
30
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
42.6
Information
Source:
Museum’s website; La Grandville to TGM, 3/03; La Grandville 2000a, p. 5
Literature:
La Grandville 2000a, p. 5; Gendron 1997 (Auguste Tolbecque, luthier et musicien - publ. by Musées de Niort)
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front, head 3/4 [color]); Baron n.d., p. 61 (front 3/4 [color]; [unpublished, from F. Khazine: FB+S, head front + back 3/4, table ornament]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Based on instrument in painting of St. Cecilia by Dominichino (in the Louvre): square shoulders, upper bouts have one pair of inner corners (dimples), no outer corners above waist, corners below waist are squared off; F-holes have “fish-tails” instead of lower eyes. Coat of arms painted on table; extensive designs on back and ribs (including date “1552”); black-and-white edging to table; double purfling front and back. Carved head includes shoulders and bust. Kept and played by maker until his death. (La Grandville: BL 75.0, ribs 13.5.)