DHV:
1366
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Claude
Boivin
Date:
1734
Label Text:
Claude Boivin / rue de grenelle St. Honoré / a Paris 1734 [printed except 34]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
No. of Strings:
7+7
Collection:
[ex-Universität Leipzig]
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
852
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Wilhelm Heyer, Cologne, 1910- ; Charles-Alphonse, Baron Vidal de Léry, -1910; G. Bernardel, Paris?
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.5
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12.7
Upper Width:
31.4
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
39.5
Information
Source:
E. Fontana to TGM, 12/10; Schultz 1929, p. 69; Kinsky 1912, 2:493; De Léry 1910, lot 410
Literature:
Herzog 2003, FR-6; Schultz 1929, p. 69; Lütgendorff 1922, 2:50; Kinsky 1912, 2:493; Jacquot 1900, p. 107
Photographs:
Kinsky 1912, 2:488 (front), 2:603 (label); Jacquot 1900, p. ?? (front 7/8); De Léry 1910, lot 410 (plate 10) (front); [unpublished, from E. Fontana 12/10: front 3/4 (circa 1910)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
De Léry 1910, lot 410
Lost since World War II. Kinsky and Lütgendorff call it a “Basse de Viole d’Amour”; Schultz says symphathetic strings perhaps a later addition. De Léry 1910: arched back, date 1754, playable condition. (Très belle basse de viole de Claude Boivin à Paris 1754 [sic]; fond voûté; très beau vernis rouge; très jolie tête de femme et attributs d’instruments de musique, finement sculptés, beau style Louis XV; prête à jouer.) Possibly or probably the same as Jacquot 1900, p. 107: “No. 98. Basse de viole de M. Boivin, luthier à Paris, datée de 1734. Msr G. Bernardel, à Paris.”