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Guitar-shaped viola
Probably by: Dominick E. Ragot (American (born in France), born about 1799)
1840s
Object Place: Black Rock, New York
Medium/Technique
Maple, spruce, ebony
Dimensions
Length 62 cm, width 22 cm (length 24 7/16 in., width 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maurice Levine
Accession Number2007.74
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
InscriptionsRoughly incised on back of peg box: Marquis de [Maire?] / J. G. / I. H. S. / 1675; handwritten label: This instrument is by / Francois Chanot / Paris 1817-1824 / W. S. G. [This label was likely added by Boston violin maker Walter Salon Goss in the early 1900s]
ProvenanceBefore 1967, Maurice Levine, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; by 1983 (reportedly as early as 1967), loaned by Levine to the MFA; 2007, gift of Levine to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 6, 2007)
Greensleeves
Traditional
Performed by Brian Clague