DHV:
873
Tourin ID:
UCLA 3
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Louis
Guersan
Date:
1750
Label Text:
Ludovicus / Guersan / prope / Comoediam / Gallicam / Lutetioe / Anno / 1750 [printed except 50]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes?
Previous Owner:
University of California at Los Angeles, no. 604007649-23 (formerly 3-21); Erich Lachmann, Los Angeles, -1961; Albert Caressa, Paris
Measurements:
Body Length:
33
String Length:
32.4
Rib Depth:
5.4
Upper Width:
16.4
Middle Width:
11.4
Bottom Width:
20
Information
Source:
TGM visit 7/92
Literature:
Christie’s 10/13/09, lot 167; Lachmann 1950, p. 28
Photographs:
Christie’s 10/13/09, lot 167 (F+B, head side [color]); Lachmann 1950, p. 29 (front 3/4)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Christie’s 2009/10/13, lot 167
Striped ribs and back (maple and palisander); table and back both have double purfling. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side; “in a perfect state of preservation...with its original...varnish”. (Lachmann gives tuning as g-c’-e’-a’-d”.) Tourin dimensions 58.4, 34.6, 16.0/-/20.0, 5.4, - (converted from Lachmann’s inches); museum dimensions 33.1, 16.3/11.5/19.9, 5.4, 32.3. Christie’s: dark stripes chestnut, length of back 33.