Lost Illusions

1865-1867

150.5 cm 86.5 cm

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Gleyre claimed that "Lost Illusions" represented a vision that he had experienced on the evening of March 1, 1835, while sitting on the banks of the Nile River near Abydos, Egypt. An aging poet watches pensively as a mysterious boat carries away his youthful dreams and illusio...

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William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1865, by commission [Goupil & Cie. as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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