DHV:
181
Tourin ID:
BRUS 50
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Nicolas
Bertrand
Date:
1701
Label Text:
Nicolas Bertrand à Paris, 1701; also stamped BERTRAND at top of back
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
0222
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
François-Joseph Fétis, Brussels
Measurements:
Body Length:
31.4
String Length:
30.5
Rib Depth:
6.1
Upper Width:
16
Middle Width:
11.1
Bottom Width:
18.8
Information
Source:
M. Maes to TGM, 8/21; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78 (?)
Literature:
Mahillon 2/1893, 1:320
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color]); Moens 2000, p. 19 (F [color]); Otterstedt 1994, p. 205 (head side); [unpublished, from M. Maes 8/21: F body only, B+S, head front and back 3/4, details of neck and ribs (color); unpublished, in Heale Archive, from museum: FB+S]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Mahillon (and museum’s website): dessus; dimensions: L-total 62, W-bottom 19. Photos show single purfling on front, none on back; elaborate carving on back of pegbox.