Jacques Charles Eve

A maker in Paris about 1770-90. His violins look as if they were made on a German model, very arched, with small sound-holes, and red-brown varnish; rather heavy effect altogether, but the work is carefully done. In a violin with spirit varnish, rather transparent, was the label: "Eve, Me Luthier, rue Neuve-Ste-Catherine, au coin de celle de St-Louis proche la Place Rovale 'a la Fortune' ” Another violin is dated 1770. In 1788 he was living in the rue Vieille-du-Temple.