DHV:
126
Tourin ID:
BOYER 1
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
F, Lyon ?
Maker:
Gaspar
Tieffenbrucker ?
Date:
15.. ?
Gaspar Duiffobrugcar / A la coste Sainct Sebastien
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F, Paris
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Private collection
No. of Strings:
5
Catalog Number:
Head:
Animal
Previous Owner:
Jean-Baptiste Bonaventure Roquefort, Paris (d. 1833)
Measurements:
Body Length:
62.5
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
30.7
Middle Width:
21
Bottom Width:
35
Information Source:
PT visit, 1977/78?
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sandys & Forster 1864, 198
[from J-M Renard: F, F+B body only, head 3/4 (color)]; [by PT: F+B (color)]
Elaborate picture covers entire back (bearded man seated under canopy: Moses, after Michelangelo’s sculpture); inlaid fingerboard (lacking upper portion); 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. According to Sandys & Forster, “a salamander, the device of Francis I, was carved on the neck”; their source was Choron’s Dictionnaire historique des muisiciens, artistes, at amateurs, morts ou vivants (2/1817).