DHV:
592
Tourin ID:
METRO 03
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Toulouse
Antoine
Cabroly
Date:
1730
Label Text:
Fait par Cabroly / A Toulouse 1730 [printed]; second line crossed out, 1734 and illegible word written below
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New York, NY
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
89.4.1345
Head:
Child
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Mrs. J. Crosby Brown, -1889 or later (but before 1906); Mr. Snaith (wine merchant), Quebec, 1864; Eliseppe LaRue (music dealer), Quebec, c. 1860; L’hôpital général de Québec [mid-18th to mid-19th-C.]
Measurements:
Body Length:
35.3
String Length:
29.3
Rib Depth:
7.2
Upper Width:
17.1
Middle Width:
12.4
Bottom Width:
20.7
Information
Source:
PT visit 12/78
Literature:
Ludwig 2025; Monical 1989a, p. 12; Monical 1979, p. 3; Brown 1902, p. 66
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+B, head 7/8 [color]); Ludwig 2025, p. 18 (front [color]; Monical 1989a, p. 12 (F+S); Monical 1979, p. 2 (F+S)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Very long, high C-holes; enlarged lower bout; original neck, very short. (Older photos in Monical booklets show instrument unstrung with only 4 frets on neck and notch for 5th at bottom of neck foot; in newer photos on website it’s strung and has 6 on neck, plus 7th below neck heel, and 8th at octave.) 2-piece table of cedar, 1-piece back, both with painted purfling (also on ribs and pegbox). Among the viols discovered c. 1860 in a convent (l’hôpital général) in Quebec: cf. www.the canadianencyclopedia.com, s.v. Collections d’instruments, which says they were probably hidden there during the siege of Quebec in 1759; ibid. s.v. Québec says the find included “une dizaine de violes ... fabriquées à Paris chez Nicolas Bertrand.”