The Mozart House in Salzburg has hung a new collection – including one image never seen before, believed to date from 1783.
You win some, you lose some. The portrait below, showing the boy Mozart with a bird’s nest in 1764, has been exposed a forgery. The name Mozart was attached to the painting long after the composer’s death. And it is probably not the work of the named painter, Joseph Zoffany (1733-1810).
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A dealer went to Picasso’s studio and saw something he was painting, and bought it then and there. A critic came to the dealer’s and said the painting was a phony. The dealer went to Picasso and told him what had happened. Picasso said “Yes, it’s a fake.” The dealer said how can this be a fake I saw it right here on your easel while you were working on it! Picasso said “I always paint fakes.”
1840 was the first intentional photograph of a human-It’s unfortunate that Mozart missed this.
Neither of the paintings above rings true.
But amazingly there exists a photograph (a daguerrotype, really) of Mozart’s wife Constanze. It is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Constanze_Weber_1840_full.jpg