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| Keywords: Charles Gleyre - Lost Illusions - Walters 37184.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q6684066 creator Léon Dussart Creator Charles Gleyre Charles Gleyre Illusions Perdues 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 illusions personified by music-making maidens and a cupid strewing flowers Although the figures in the painting wear classical Greek dress their vessel resembles a dahabieh an Egyptian river boat In 1843 Gleyre succeeded Paul Delaroche as the head of the major private studio in Paris His pupils included such diverse figures as the Academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme the future Impressionists Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 and the American James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834-1904 This painting begun by Gleyre's pupil Léon Dussart and reworked by Gleyre himself replicates Gleyre's masterpiece Le Soir now in the Louvre Museum Paris William Walters commissioned this painting from the artist through the Parisian art dealers Goupil Cie in 1865 It took two years to complete Conscious of the delay the firm wrote to Walters Mr Gleyre has finally nearly finished his reproduction of his picture We are happy to be able to tell you that this reproduction is beautifully done It has taken a long time and has required more trouble from the painter than he thought between 1865 1867 oil canvas cm 86 5 150 5 ; Framed cm 132 7 196 9 18 4 accession number 37 184 2336 William T Walters city Baltimore Goupil Cie as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1867 C Gleyre signature right ~ Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 Triumph of French Painting Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute Dayton 2000-2002 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Charles Gleyre Paintings of ships Poets in art French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Copies Léon Dussart Off the Wall Baltimore 1860s paintings from France Cupid with a boat | ||||
