DHV:
714
Tourin ID:
PARIS 24
Size:
Quinton
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Augustin ?
Chappuy ?
Date:
17..
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Violin
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Musée de la musique
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
E.1554 (formerly C.1464)
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Elise Altès (widow of Ernest Altès), -1899
Measurements:
Body Length:
37
String Length:
Rib Depth:
3.3
Upper Width:
15.5
Middle Width:
11
Bottom Width:
20.5
Information
Source:
Museum’s website; Gétreau 1996, p. 688; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Herzog 2003, QT-5; Gétreau 1996, pp. 285-86, 688
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S, head side)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Arched back, overhanging edges; double purfling on table and back; 3 pegs treble, 2 bass side. Museum’s website: anon., France, 18e s. (“Genre Augustin Chappuy”) (P. Jacquier to P. Tourin, 9/79: “non signé mais sans doute de Chappuy.”) Repaired in 1964 by G. Dupuy: new pegs and tailpiece (Gétreau 1996, p. 464). (Augustin Chappuy died in 1784.)