French Violin Bow: Museum Object and Cultural History
French Violin Bow: date made: 1909 - 1911. maker attribution: Sartory, Eugene Nicolas. Object Name: bow.
The object in the museum catalogue
This bow is attributed to Eugene Nicolas Sartory in Paris, around 1909-1911. It is a violin bow made of a round light reddish-orange Pernambuco stick with an ivory face, a full silver lined ebony frog with pearl slide and eyes with silver rings, and a silver button. The bow is stamped (heavily worn):
A student of the great bowmakers, Charles Peccatte and Alfred Lamy, Eugene Sartory, (1871-1946), is highly celebrated for his work and is regarded as one of the last of the 19th-century French-trained bowmakers. This bow of light Pernambuco is typical of his late output, with a round stick which one frequently finds in his work.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1909 - 1911
- maker attribution: Sartory, Eugene Nicolas
- Object Name: bow
- Physical Description: pernambuco (overall material)
- Physical Description: ebony (overall material)
- Physical Description: silver (overall material)
- Physical Description: horesehair (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 1 1/8 in x 1/2 in x 29 1/2 in; 2.8575 cm x 1.27 cm x 74.93 cm
- place made: France: Île-de-France, Paris
- ID Number: MI.73.44
- accession number: 306526
- catalog number: 73.44
- Credit Line: Veterans Administration Hospital
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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