DHV:
1512
Tourin ID:
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Mirecourt
Nicolas
Chappuy
Date:
Label Text:
N. CHAPPUY [stamped on table and back]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New York, NY
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
2006.504
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Gerald Trimble, Asheville, NC, 2006; André Bissonet, Paris
Measurements:
Body Length:
32.6
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
15.7
Middle Width:
10.7
Bottom Width:
19
Information
Source:
Museum website; Trimble to TGM (phone), 6/09
Literature:
Museum’s annual report 2006-07 (on website)
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+B [color]); on cover of Mitteilungen der Viola-da-Gamba-Gesellschaft Nr. 112, Herbst 2019; MacCracken 2017, p. 67 (front)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Arched back; body measurements noted as “(bottom)”--i.e., taken on back? 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side.