#helaena as cassandra of troy AND ophelia

[tell-them-the-north-remembers]

"Cot recreated the image of a woman who was breaking and deciding if she would take her own life. Hence the alternate title Pause for Thought. Ophelia was not mentally sound by the end of Hamlet and you can see that in the eyes of Cot’s Ophelia, unlike Millais and Cabanel’s."

-From thecollector.com about Pierre-Auguste Cot's Ophelia (middle picture)