DHV:
1553
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Niort
Auguste
Tolbecque
Date:
1898
Label Text:
A Tolbecque 1898 [pencil on wood]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
F
Niort
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée Bernard d'Agesci
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
001.2.1
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
Museum’s website
Literature:
Museum’s website
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S [color]); Coin 2020, p. 32 (head 3/4 [color])
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 on table; arabesques painted on table and ribs (and inlaid on fingerboard and tailpiece), but back is plain; single purfling. Head of bearded man, possibly a self-portrait of the maker at a younger age.