Description
John William Waterhouse’s Ophelia portrays a red-haired woman seated beside water, surrounded by reeds and flowering plants. Her pale dress falls across the bank, and raised hands frame the side of her face. Dense woodland creates a dark, intimate setting.
The slight backward tilt of her head gives the otherwise still pose a troubled energy. Small flowers and leaves soften the foreground, while the water appears in quiet fragments behind her. Waterhouse makes the figure’s inward absorption the center of a richly observed natural scene.
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