DHV:
605
Tourin ID:
MFA 5, LOAN 26
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Claude
Pierray
Date:
1710 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Boston, MA
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Museum of Fine Arts
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
1917.1717 (formerly 275)
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Francis W. Galpin, -1916
Measurements:
Body Length:
69
String Length:
72.5
Rib Depth:
13.5
Upper Width:
33.3
Middle Width:
24.7
Bottom Width:
40.5
Information
Source:
Museum data sheet; Loan 1904, p. 152
Literature:
Galpin 1972, p. 19; Bessaraboff 1941, p. 281; Loan 1904, p. 152; Loan 1900, p. 29
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front [color]); Kuronen 2004, p. 136 (front [color]); Jeppesen 1979 (color); Bessaraboff 1941, pl. XI (front); Galpin 1937, pl. VI.9 (front); [unpublished, from museum: front; from D. Kuronen, 5/15: back (color)]; [by TGM: front (color)]
Recordings:
Jeppesen 1979 (Rameau)
Auctions:
Comments:
Bessaraboff: 2-piece back, 2-piece table, double purfling on latter only. Cross-bars replaced with “extra strong” ones. Suggested date “ca. 1708.” (Museum website: “about 1710”)Galpin 1972: “in faint ink writing, Claude Pierray Paris 1727” (date sic). Tourin notes seen at MFA: 19th C. neck, but head and pegbox original. Tourin/Viollist: wood liners and corner blocks, not original? Restored 1961/63 by Donald Warnock (table recontoured, 4 new pegs, etc.); 1965 by Lloyd Adams (new back braces and bass bar, repaired worm damage esp. to head and pegbox, revarnished); also a repair label of Messrs. John A. Gould & Sons, Boston, Mass., 1936. Bessaraboff reports bridge stamped “Chanot” (later replaced by Warnock).