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Painting of a nude winged woman above a white horse and riders beneath a rainbow, with floating bubbles and scattered objects

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Life's Illusions by George Frederic Watts, dated 1849, shows a nude winged female figure rising across the upper left of a turbulent sky. Below, a group of figures on a white horse ride toward a bright rainbow, while floating bubbles drift through the scene and objects lie scattered at the bottom edge.

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1849

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Public domain

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