Ophélie (2021)Oil painting
by Nicolas Maureau

Fourth painting in the Melancholy series, Ophelia takes up the iconography of Shakespeare's character in Hamlet. Scene particularly appreciated by the Romantics or the Pre-Raphaelites Ophelia loses her mind after Hamlet pretends to no longer love her.
Nicolas Maureau, representing Ophélie with a lily, quotes the poem Ophélia by Rimbaud:
Sur l’onde calme et noire où dorment les étoiles
La blanche Ophélia flotte comme un grand lys,
Flotte très lentement, couchée en ses longs voiles…
– On entend dans les bois lointains des hallalis.

Materials used:

oil painting

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 130 x 97 x 2cm (unframed) / 130 x 97cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Photorealistic
• Subject: People and portraits

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