DHV:
52
Tourin ID:
BATT 1
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Jean Baptiste
Voboam
Date:
1719
Label Text:
Voboam / a Paris / 1719 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée de la musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
E.998.11.1
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Jean-Pierre Batt, Maintenon (F), 1973-98
Measurements:
Body Length:
31.2
String Length:
31.8
Rib Depth:
6.2
Upper Width:
15.4
Middle Width:
10.8
Bottom Width:
18.2
Information
Source:
Museum’s website; Gétreau 1988, pp. 58, 70; Batt to Tourin, 2/77
Literature:
Gétreau 2001, pp. 40, 134-35; Gétreau 1988, pp. 58, 70
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S, head 3/4 and side [color]); Gétreau 2001, pp. 134-35 (front [reversed], treble soundhole detail, both color; label; X-ray of body front)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
5-piece table. With original case. Gétreau 1988: Original fittings except hookbar and bridge (and 2 pegs). Tailpiece (veneered in ebony, like fingerboard) has second set of 5 holes, farther from bridge and more crudely drilled than main set of 6. Purfling (BWBWB) on table only. Gétreau 1988 + 2001: dimensions 60.0, 31.4, 15.5/ - /18.2, 6.8, 31.5. Gétreau 2001: found by Batt in a very pure state, but in poor condition; restored by Pierre Abondance in 1975 (including new material for edges of table and parts of ribs, repair of worm damage and cracks). Signature identical to that on at least 5 guitars dating between 1697 and 1730. Auctioned at Hôtel Druot, Paris, 6/10/98, lot 115. Stylistically close to Bertrand. On display 8/02: small C-holes. Batt purchased in Perigord in mid-1970s (F. Khazine, 8/02). Museum’s dimensions: 31.4, 15.5/-/18.2, -, -.