DHV:
593
Tourin ID:
METRO 04
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Mirecourt
Jean III
Vuillaume
Date:
1743
Label Text:
Jean Villiaume / de Mirecourt 1743 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New York, NY
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
89.4.1344
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Mrs. J. Crosby Brown; L’hôpital général de Québec [mid-19th-C.]
Measurements:
Body Length:
35.8
String Length:
33.8
Rib Depth:
7.1
Upper Width:
17.4
Middle Width:
13.4
Bottom Width:
21.9
Information
Source:
PT visit 12/78
Literature:
Monical 1989a, p. 13; Monical 1979, p. 5; Brown 1902, p. 66
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+B [color], head side); Monical 1989a, p. 13 (F+S); Monical 1979, p. 4 (F+S)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
C-holes placed high; original neck, fingerboard and tailpiece. 2-piece table with painted purfling, 1-piece back with no purfling. 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.” Museum documentation, from 1902 to present, uses spelling Villiaume, not found in Vannes et al., who use Vuillaume for whole large family; Jean III active 1738-52.