This painting depicts the discovery of the dead body of Hamlet´s beloved Ophelia, floating in the river after she fell from a weeping willow, which she had climbed in order to hang a garland of flowers. The painting, which has sketchy brushstrokes, reveals the impact that William Shakespeare´s work had on Rosales. Working with extremely thin paint that allows the canvas´s priming to act as an expressive element, Rosales uses rapid, confident black lines to compose the figures profiles and the scene´s profound realism, including the bloated belly of the drowned protagonist. Yet this realism and its concrete reference to the literary landscape contrasts with the inclusion of a male figure, who simply doesn´t exist in the original text. This work was acquired from María de Mora y Aragón on 28 January 1965 for the Museum of Modern Art.