Obviously once you go back 200 years 99.9% depictions have to be fake and once back 2000 or so years an outright 100%. And everything that we do have is also cherry picked and faked, by the original authors, but still fake. Pictures are cherry picked (and we don't have any going back even a few centuries) and paintings are outright fantasy.
Just look what a giant Napoleon is in all his paintings (or even the size of his grave)
Napoleon was not actually short it was British propaganda based on the difference in length between the longer French and shorter British inch. The British took his measure in French inches and reported it in British and mocked his height. In fact he was actually taller than the average Frenchman at the time.
Just look what a giant Napoleon is in all his paintings (or even the size of his grave)