Niccolò Paganini

Illustration

by Trustees of the British Museum
published on 20 January 2025

Niccolò Paganini, depicted in his most romantic guise, with tousled hair and gaunt cheeks, the product of his reliance on mercury and opium. Lithograph by Nicolas Eustache and Antoine Maurin, based on a painting by Pingret in Baden in 1831, now apparently lost, printed by the Gihaut Brothers.

The British Museum, London.

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