DHV:
1238
Tourin ID:
1762
Quinton
François
Lejeune
# of Strings:
5
Place Made:
F, Paris
Body Shape:
Violin
Current Location:
F, Lille
Sound Holes:
F
Collection:
Musée Régional de l’Hospice Comtesse, Collection J. & P. Hel
Head:
Scroll
Catalog Number:
C. 623 / 2002.0.32
Label Text:
François Le Jeune rue de la / [Juiverie à] Paris. Année 1762 [printed]
Measurements:
String Length:
Total Length:
Body Length:
35.8
Upper Width:
16
Rib Depth:
4.3
Middle Width:
11
Bottom Width:
21
Previous Owner:
Heirs of Pierre Hel, Lille, -1957
Information Source:
Hell 1989, p. 86 (no. 56)
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Herzog 2003, QT-77; La Grandville 2000, p. 5; Hell 1989, p. 66 (no. 31)
On website of Musée de la musique (front [color]); Hell 1989, p. ?? (front [color]); p. 66 (head 3/4)
2-piece back, sloping shoulders, 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Pegs, fingerboard and tailpiece of ebony, not original; latter has traces of 4-string set-up; neck reset at greater angle than originally.