Violin
- Object Name:
- Violin
- Object ID:
- 2016.025.02
- Creator:
- Picard, Ferdinand (1873-1928)
Musical Instrum - Place of Origin:
- Rochester, NH
- Date:
- 1928
- Description:
- Violin. Unfinished, made by Ferdinand Picard (1873-1928), Rochester, NH, 1928. Spruce belly; maple ribs, back, and neck. No strings, fingerboard, bridge, or tuning pegs. Surface unfinished. Typescript label inside: "Stradivarius Model / Made by Ferdinand Picard"; "1928" written in ink.
- Material:
- Wood
Spruce
Maple - Dimensions:
- W-8.2 L-23.25 D-1.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Ferdinand Picard was born in Canada in 1873, son of Edward Picard and Marie Langlois. He lived in Pittsfield, NH, where he married Rose Delina Frenette in 1895. They moved to Rochester, NH, around 1900, where he worked in the Wyandotte woolen mill. According to Olivia Morison, Picard's granddaughter, he made his first violin for his daughter, who wanted to learn to play. He learned how to make violins by studying drawings of a Stradivarius. He died in Rochester in 1928 before he could complete this violin.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of James and Olivia Morrison
- People:
- Picard, Ferdinand (1873-1928)
- Subjects:
- Violins
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