DHV:
1554
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Niort
Auguste
Tolbecque
Date:
1900 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
F
Niort
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée Bernard d'Agesci
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
995.39.1
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
78.5
String Length:
76
Rib Depth:
13.6
Upper Width:
35.7
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
42.2
Information
Source:
Museum’s website
Literature:
Museum’s website
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front [color]); Coin 2020, p. 5 (FB+S [color])
Recordings:
Coin 2020 (Homage à Tolbecque; track 16 only)
Auctions:
Comments:
Square shoulders; upper bouts form pronounced S-curves ending in downward-pointing corners; no outer corners below waist; one pair of inner corners (dimples) in lower bouts. Supposedly based on an instrument from the former Petit collection, now at the Musée de la Musique in Paris (perhaps E.790, a treble by Martino Heel, with less exaggerated upper bouts and soundholes?). 1-piece back, ribs, and neck of red walnut, all with painted Renaissance-style floral decoration; painted coat of arms (fake?) on table; black-and-white edging. Sculpted tailpiece, diagonal end of fingerboard. Sold at maker’s estate sale in 1922. Museum’s website: “restauré en vue du centenaire de la mort d'Auguste Tolbecque [en 2019].”