DHV:
591
Tourin ID:
METRO 02, BRIQUE 2
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Jean
Ouvrard
Date:
1726
Label Text:
Jean Ouvrard / Mc...Luthier a Paris, / 1726 [printed] (including date?)
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New York, NY
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
89.4.946
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Mrs. J. Crosby Brown; Eugène de Bricqueville, Versailles, -after 1895
Measurements:
Body Length:
34.5
String Length:
37
Rib Depth:
7.2
Upper Width:
16.5
Middle Width:
11.2
Bottom Width:
19.5
Information
Source:
PT visit 12/78
Literature:
Monical 1989a, p. 11; Monical 1979, p. 1; Winternitz 1971, p. 68; Vannes 1999, p. 264; Brown 1902, p. 65; Bricqueville 1895, p. 5; Bricqueville 1893, p. 6
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+B, head 3/4 + side [color]); MacCracken 2017, p. 57 (front); Monical 1989a, p. 11 (F+S); Monical 1979, p. viii (F+S); Winternitz 1971, p. 68; Brown 1902, facing p. 64 (front)
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Comments:
Original neck, fingerboard and tailpiece. 2-piece table with single purfling, 3-piece back. Back and ribs are walnut. Scroll has plain sides (no ears). Bricqueville 1893, p. 6: rib height 8 cm [probably including table and back].