Faked image of Nicolò Paganini
Faked image of Nicolò Paganini, 1782 - 1840, the great violinist The image below is included here not to perpetuate the myth of its authenticity, but rather to help put the Paganini carving by Gégoux into the perspective of the times in which it was created. I include here an article which has been preserved in the Gégoux family records since the day of its printing in 1901. I do not know how Gégoux felt about the article or the faked image seen here. But the Gégoux carving bears as much resemblance to this faked image as it does to any of the other various likenesses of Paganini. STRANGE discovery! At last, sixty years after his death, we have an exact likeness of the greatest violinist the world has ever seen - Nicolo Paganini. By special permission of Breitkopf & Haertel, of Leipsic, who own all rights of this picture, I am enabled to present it to the readers of THE MUSICAL COURIER. It is a photograph of an old daguerrotype of Paganini lately discovered in Turin, Italy, hence t...