Ophelia

Benjamin West (1791)

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Joseph Severn (1831)

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Eugene Delacroix - The Death of Ophelia (1838)

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Henri Lehmann (1847)

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John Everett Millais (1851)

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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;


William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act IV Scene VII

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Arthur Hughes (detail, 1853)

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George Watts (1864)

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The First Madness of Ophelia (1864)

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Thomas Francis Dicksee (ca. 1864)

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Artur Grottger (1865)

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Charles Lidderdale (1870)

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Pierre-Auguste Cot (1870)

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William Quiller Orchardson (1874)

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Jules Bastien Lepage (1881)

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Alexandre Cabanel (1883)

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Mikhal Vrubel - Hamlet and Ophelia (1883)

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Maurice Greiffenhagen - Laertes and Ophelia (1885)

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Gabriel von Max (undated)

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Alfred Stevens (1887)

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Konstantin Makovsky (ca. 1888)

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Henrietta Rae (1890)

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Jules Lefebvre (1890)

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John William Waterhouse (1894)

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John William Waterhouse (detail, 1910)

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Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1900)

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Friedrich Heyser (1900)

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Carlos Ewerbeck (ca. 1900)

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Odilon Redon (1902)

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Maya Kulenovic (2008)

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Wouter Steel (2008)

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Michael Triegel (ca. 2010)

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José Luis Muñoz Luque (2016)

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Aratza Sestayo (2018)

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Igor Tcholaria (2018)

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Mark Demsteader (ca. 2018)

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Edel Lugones (2021)

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Ophelia

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet

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