Ophelia | Léopold Burthe | 1851 John Faed Lovell invites us into a

Lovell invites us into a story mid-chapter—one filled with mystery

massive earthquakes rending the earth

and the destructive glamour of evil

on the other

bathed in a soft

Ophelia | Léopold Burthe | 1851 John Faed Lovell invites us into aAbout the artwork: Lopold Burthes Ophelia presents Shakespeares tragic heroine at the threshold between life and death, focusing on the moment described in Act IV, Scene VII of Hamlet, when Ophelia falls near the willow and is carried away by the water. Painted in 1851, the work reflects the nineteenth century fascination with Shakespearean tragedy and with fragile, psychologically charged female figures. Burthe, a French painter associated with