Which is your favorite Ophelia?

The character of Ophelia was a popular subject with 19th century painters. I’d like to ask you to vote for your favorite image in the poll at left. 

In the poll, 678 people cast a vote, and the number of votes for each painting follows each artist's name.


Above: Jules Joseph Lefebvre. 74 votes
If you’re not familiar with Ophelia, she is the tragic young noblewoman in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Her story has it all: beauty, insanity, death—and flowers!


Above: Alexandre Cabanel. 8
Heartbroken by Hamlet’s apparent madness and rejection of her, she gathers wildflowers, climbs a willow, which slants over the river, and falls into the water, where she drowns.


Above: Arthur Hughes  45
She’s generally shown in 19th century paintings with mussed-up hair, a white dress, a garland of flowers, and a wild look in her eyes.


Above: John Everett Millais.   282

John William Waterhouse was fascinated by Ophelia. He did three versions:


Here’s John William Waterhouse (1)  30 votes


John William Waterhouse (2)  56 votes



John William Waterhouse (3)  44 votes


Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret  21 votes


Frank Dicksee  Thomas Francis Dicksee  13 votes


W. G. Simmonds  13 votes


Antoine-Auguste-Ernest-Hébert 35 votes

 
Paul Steck   57 votes

OK! Now that you’ve seen all the images in this post, please cast your vote for your favorite interpretation in the poll at left.

Wikipedia on Ophelia 

Related books:
HAMLET 
J.W. Waterhouse
Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition
Sir John Everett Millais (Pre-Raphaelite Painters Series)
Millais