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.

1. in painting

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”

23. Georges Roussin: “Ophelia"1854

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)

33. Lucien Levy-Dhurmer: 1900

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

39. Odilon Redon:"Ophelia" 1900-1905

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"

49. Alfred Joseph(1805-1892):
"Ophelia"

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”
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