Ophelia's madness in painting
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This document discusses over 50 artworks depicting Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet created between 1851 and 2010. It includes paintings, drawings, and lithographs by famous artists like Millais, Waterhouse, Rossetti, Redon, and Dali that show Ophelia in various states of madness and death by drowning as described in the play. The earliest and most iconic depiction is Millais's 1851 painting that used his muse Elizabeth Siddal as a model and had her pose in a tub of cold water.
Ophelia's madness in painting
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- 2. Paul A. Steck: “Ophelia” 1895 Ophelia’s death has been praised as one of the most poetically written death scenes in literature.Ophelia is a captivating character: she provides inspiration to pre-Raphaelites and other artists. Hamlet’s fiancée, she turns mad when her father, Polonius, is killed by Hamlet. Shew drowns in solitude, in sorrow, and madness
- 3. Sir John Everett Millais : "Ophelia" 1851
- 4. "Ophelia": John Everett Millais Millais's iconic painting "Ophelia" shows the scene in which Ophelia, driven mad by Hamlet’s taunts, falls into a brook and ultimately drowns. "Ophelia" still remains one of the most popular paintings in the Tate collection, and the story of its creation has captured the imagination as much as the final painting beauty.
- 5. The model for "Ophelia" was Elizabeth Siddall, who featured in several Pre-Raphaelite paintings and became Dante Gabriel Rossetti muse and wife. Millais’s treatment of the model for the painting has become infamous, as he forced the young Elizabeth Siddal to lie fully clothed in a tub of cold water while he completed his work.
- 6. Léopold Burthe (1823 – 1860)
- 7. Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan Bouveret ( 1812-1859) :"Ophelia”
- 8. Delacroix: “La Mort d’Ophélie” - 1838
- 9. John William Waterhouse: “Bluebird "Ophelia” 1889.
- 10. 1894 1910
- 11. J.W. Waterhouse – “Gather ya Rosebuds or Ophelia“ 1908
- 12. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “Hamlet and Ophelia” !858 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "Ophelia’s First Madness” 1864
- 13. Arthur Hughes: "Ophelia“ 1852
- 14. (detail) Arthur Hugues: "Ophelia" 1865
- 15. Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817-80)
- 16. Ferdinand Piloty II (1828 – 1895)
- 17. - Jules-Joseph Lefevbre "Ophelia“ 1892
- 18. John Wood (1801-1870): "Ophelia"
- 19. Joseph Severn : "Ophelia" - 1831-(Pre- Raphaelite Trust)
- 20. Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hebert: 1817- 1909 Hébert's portrait of Ophelia is charged with a latent sexuality. The dark: hollow eyes stare defiantly at the viewer and suggest a pain and betrayal beyond her ability to cope
- 21. Jules-Elie Delaunay (1828-1891) :"Ophélie"
- 22. William Adolphe Bouguerau (1825-1905): “Young Ophelia”
- 24. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Trautschold : "Ophelia“ 1867
- 25. Theodor von der Beek (1838 – 1921 )
- 26. Athur Prince Spear :"Ophelia" 1926
- 27. "Ophelia" - Frank Dicksee 1873
- 28. Thomas Francis Dicksee: “Ophelia”: 1864 Thomas Francis Dicksee:Ophelia": 1861
- 29. Thomas Francis Dicksee: "Ophelia" (1865)
- 30. Marcus Stone 1888 George Victor Clairin (1843-1919)
- 31. Georges Clairin (French: 1843-1919): "Ophelia in the Thistles"
- 32. "Ophelia" (1) Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) . (2) (3)
- 34. Anna Lea Merritt : "Ophelia" -portrait of Ellen Terry in the role - 1880 (etching) & painting
- 35. Henri Gervex (1852-1929) : Nellie Melba as Ophelia in Hamlet (opera) -
- 36. Richard Redgrave : "Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands”: 1842
- 37. William Gale (1823-1909) "Ophelia or Evangeline” William Gale: "Ophelia or Evangeline “-1862
- 38. Odilon Redon: “Opheliia among the flowers” c. 1908
- 40. Odilon Redon
- 41. Odilon Redon: “The Predestined Child (Ophelia)”
- 42. James Sant (1820-1916) - “ Ophelia”
- 43. Alexandre Cabannel: "Ophelia" 188l
- 44. Constant Montald "Ophelia" (1893)
- 45. George Frederic Watts -1864
- 46. « Ophelia ,la Fiancée de la Mort » Gustave Courbet : 1842
- 47. Joseph Kronheim: "Ophelia" (1810- 1896)
- 48. Gaston Bussiere (1862-1929): "Ophelie in Water"
- 50. . Antoon Van Welie: “Ophélie” 1899
- 51. Virgilio Toretti (1851-1901) : “Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may”
- 52. Carlos Ewerbeck : "Ophelia at the River's Edge ” c.1900 .
- 53. Salvador Dali: "Ophelia"’s Death” limited-edition lithograph: where the artist shows "Ophelia" in full-body repose as well as a detail of her head: as she awaits her inevitable fate.
- 54. Lilibeth 2010 Revised edition: 2014 Audio: Saint-Seya: Mime’s Harp – “Requiem” Photos & texts: Web