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George Frederick Watts completed this allegorical work named for the mirage phenomenon. The composition explores themes of illusion and perception with the symbolic imagery Watts favored in his "paintings of ideas."
Watts was a leading Victorian painter who sought to express philosophical and spiritual themes through art. This work remains in a private collection.
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