Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Gu%C3%A9ymard" class="extiw" title="w:Louis Guéymard">Louis Guéymard</a> in the title role of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Meyerbeer" class="extiw" title="w:Giacomo Meyerbeer">Giacomo Meyerbeer</a>'s opera <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_le_diable_(opera)" class="extiw" title="en:Robert le diable (opera)">Robert le diable</a></i>, in the last scene of Act 1 in which Robert  gambles with dice, loses his entire estate, and sings the aria "L’or est une chimère" (Gold is but an illusion).
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Gustave_Courbet" class="extiw" title="w:en:Gustave Courbet"><span title="French painter">Gustave Courbet</span></a>
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1857<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1857-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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