DHV:
706
Tourin ID:
PARIS 16
Size:
Pardessus
Label Text:
Place Made:
F, Paris
Maker:
Antoine
Véron
Date:
1740
Antoine Véron rue de la Juiverie 1740
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F, Paris
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Musée de la musique
No. of Strings:
6? (now 7)
Catalog Number:
E.0510 (formerly C.139)
Head:
Female
Previous Owner:
Dr Julien Fau, -1873
Measurements:
Body Length:
31.5
String Length:
Rib Depth:
5.8
Upper Width:
14
Middle Width:
10.5
Bottom Width:
18.5
Information Source:
Museum’s website; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Drescher 1990, p. 650; Gétreau 1996, p. 659; Lütgendorff 1922, 2:534; Chouquet 1884, p. 32
On museum’s website (B+S, head side; front 7/8, head 3/4 [color])
Arched back with no fold, narrow body, wide fingerboard, large head. Gétreau 1996, p. 446: repaired in 1876 by Gand & Bernardel frères (new bridge, tailpiece shortened, ivory for peg heads); also repaired by Nézot. Lütgendorff calls this “eine fünfsaitige Viola” but in error; Chouquet correctly says 7 strings. 3 pegs treble, 4 bass side. (7th peg appears to have been added, so probably originally 6 strings.) Drescher says only surviving instrument by this maker, but Lütgendorff’s label illustration (2:665) shows date of 1746, presumably from somewhere else.