DHV:
968
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Mirecourt
Date:
18..
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New York, NY
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
89.4.944
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Crosby Brown, -1889
Measurements:
Body Length:
36.5
String Length:
41.8
Rib Depth:
4.1
Upper Width:
19.7
Middle Width:
12.9
Bottom Width:
23.2
Information
Source:
Monical 1979, p. 7
Literature:
Monical 1989a, p. 14; Monical 1979, p. 7
Photographs:
On museum’s website (back, head 3/4, bass C-hole); Monical 1989a, p. 14 (F+S); Monical 1979, p. 6 (F+S)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Monical (text and photos): small tenor viol, fantasy form, with extremely long neck for its body size; probably made for ornamental rather than performance purposes. Back shows St. Cecilia with cherubs, angels, and animals; shallow ribs have complementary floral decoration; table and pegbox have black-and-white edging. Carved male head with long, projecting beard is grafted to pegbox with widely spaced pegs; inlaid fingerboard; very short tailpiece with diagonal upper edge and tail gut. C-holes set low and very diagonal, with bulge at midppoint of outer edges. Website: late 19th century.