Guitar

attributed to Jean-Baptiste Voboam French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 684

The back, sides, neck, and peghead of this guitar are overlaid with tortoiseshell, ebony, and ivory chevrons with framed scrollwork, lozenges, and geometric banding and edging. The top has a gilded rosette bordered by a band of mother-of-pearl ornaments. Originally strung with five pairs of strings, this instrument was converted in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century to six single courses.

Guitar, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Voboam, Spruce, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, ebony, French

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Guitar, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Voboam, Spruce, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, ebony, French
Guitar, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Voboam, Spruce, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, ebony, French
Guitar, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Voboam, Spruce, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, ebony, French

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