DHV:
1524
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
François ?
Lupot
Date:
17..
Label Text:
[ ]. LUPOT stamped on button [first initial illegible: could be F or N]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Jean Lamy (Parisian cellist and pioneer gambist)
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.2
String Length:
67.5
Rib Depth:
11.7
Upper Width:
31.8
Middle Width:
23.5
Bottom Width:
40.1
Information
Source:
TGM visit 9/09
Literature:
Photographs:
[By TGM: FB+S, head side, stamped name (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Back is arched and strongly flamed; table highly arched, with fine to wide grain; both have single purfling and clear recurve. Soundholes have small circles along inner edges. Pegbox has fluted back, with 4 pegs on the treble side, 3 on the bass; neck a hybrid of viol and cello designs; solid ebony fingerboard and tailpiece, the latter quite short and with end near bridge cut on a strong diagonal; tailgut. Bridge marked Léon Bernardel: tall, with unused lower shelf for possible sympathetic strings. (François Lupot b. 1725, worked in Germany 1758–70, then in Orléans 1770-94, finally in Paris until his death in 1804; his very famous older son Nicolas was active in Paris 1798-1824.)