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A statuette of Nicolò Paganini, made of painted plaster with a separate glass dome and base. This small statuette was for many years in the collection of the London violin dealers, Withers, and the separate bow may have been made locally; it is not part of the original object. The image depicts Paganini like a gnarled skeleton, with powerful hands.

The caricature statuettes by Dantan were produced in plaster or bronze. They were often reproduced as lithographs. Dantan also produced images of pianists Franz Liszt, Sigismund Thalberg and Henri Herz, composer Hector Berlioz, the double bass player Domenico Dragonetti and the operatic bass Luigi Lablache, among others.

Royal Academy of Music

London

Title

Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)

Date

c.1832

Medium

plaster, wood & glass

Measurements

H 35.5 x W 13.2 x D 13.2 cm

Accession number

2011.323

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Michael Kottka as part of the Kottka-Bartlett Gift, 2011

Work type

Sculpture

Royal Academy of Music

Marylebone Road, London, Greater London NW1 5HT England

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Artist or maker

Jean-Pierre Dantan

1800–1869

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