Paris · towards 1750
Historical maker
Named in 1 book.
What the books printed
Dictionary of Violin makers, Arnold Sewell. 1928. Scan 108.
BOURGEOIS — Paris towards 1750. Few instruments by this maker are found. Golden-yellow varnish, sometimes red. It may be that this maker and Seraphin Bourgeois of Geneva are in reality the same person.
Same name
Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say.
Same town, same time
267 other Paris makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:
- 1750 Bechon
- about 1750 Bertet, Joseph
- 1750 Bourdet, J.
- 1750 to 1752 Bourdet, Jacques
- about 1750 Duchesne, Nicholas
- 1750 to 1760 Feury