DHV:
138
Tourin ID:
BRUS 04
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Metz
Nicolas Louis
Gilbert
Date:
1701
Label Text:
Nicolas Louis Gilbert / Facteur d'Instrumens à Metz / 1701 [printed except 1701; perhaps actually 1761]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
1396
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
V. & J. Mahillon, Brussels
Measurements:
Body Length:
33.8
String Length:
31.3
Rib Depth:
3.9
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
19.5
Information
Source:
Museum data sheet 6/19; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Museum data sheet 6/19; Vannes 1999, p. 127; Jacquot 1912, s.v. Gilbert; Mahillon 1900, 3:40; Vidal 1889, chap. 5, s.v. Gilbert
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color]); Baines 1966, pl. 118 (front); [unpublished: museum to TGM, 6/19: label]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Arched back, no overhanging edges; 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Mahillon (and museum’s website): quinton, 1701; but museum (A.Ceulemans) to TGM 6/19 says date more likely 1761, and photo shows top of 3rd digit is damaged (1701 is too early for a 5-string pardessus, unless “updated” during 18th C.). Vannes quotes label, says it’s “un pardessus de viole transformé en violon” (probably based on Jacquot: un pardessus de viole, transformé en violon, dos voûté, ouïes en C, existant chez Jandel à Liége en 1869 et portant l’étiquette imprimée suivante : «Nicolas-Louis-Gilbert, facteur d’instruments à Metz. 1701»); Vidal says shown at Exposition internationale, Paris, 1878. Two white circles at end of fingerboard (each about 1/3 its width). Tourin: end button. Online Généalogie des luthiers facteurs de Lorrain by René Pierre records maker’s given names as Louis Nicolas.