Transcript Ophelia in Art

“Her mood will needs be pitied.”
(IV, 5)
Ophelia in Art
Ophelia. Jean Baptiste Bertrand, 1873.
Mad Ophelia. Henry Selous, 1868.
Laertes and Ophelia.
Maurice Greiffenhagen,
1885
The First Madness of Ophelia.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1864.
Ophelia, Georg Falkenberg. c. 1898.
Ophelia’s Mad Scene. Benjamin West, 1805.
Ophelia. Arthur Hughes, c. 1863-64
Ophelia.
John William Waterhouse, 1894
Ophelia. John William Waterhouse, 1889
Ophelia. John William Waterhouse,
1910
Ophelia. Madeleine Lemaire, 1880.
“Gertrude: There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.” (IV, 7)
Ophelia. Richard Westall
Ophelia Vide Hamlet. Henry Tresham, 1794.
The Drowning of Ophelia. W.G. Simmonds
(1910)
The Death of Ophelia. Eugene Delacroix (1853)
Ophelia. Sir John Everett Millais (1852)
“Ophelia” by JoWonder (executed in live bacteria cultures)
Harold Copping.
Ophelia. Photograph by Kara
Siemiaszko
Odilon Redon. Ophélie, 1905.
Ophelia. Kim Stringfellow,
1989