The print for "The Vanishing Lady" I found on YouTube is a tad blurry. I also noticed that the description of this film on IMDB really does NOT match the movie....it's slightly different.
In this film, Georges Méliès plays a magician...something he must have done at least a hundred times in his films. This is because before working on film making, he was a stage magician. His assistant comes out and sits in a chair. The magician pulls out a sheet and holds it across her...and she vanishes. He holds the sheet over the chair again, and a skeleton appears. He repeats this and she appears again. They then take their bows.
There is nothing in this about love or the magician unable to hold the woman. But what is there is very well done and clever for its day. Worth seeing if all too familiar.
By the way, the plot description by IMDB sounds more like it's for "The Magician" (1898)...another similar film from the master filmmaker.