I'm looking for an oil painting I saw at the Louvre in1988.?

The art work is approx.9 by13 in oil. A woman is floating in the water with flower all around her. There is a bridge over the stream and in the distance you can see a man on horse back. The frame is rectangular unlike the one in Tate museum,which is very similar. I seached the web but am unable to find the painting. It might be called Ophelia.Please if anyone knows of this painting I would be very happy. Thank you!I'm looking for an oil painting I saw at the Louvre in1988.?
The Ophelia by Millais that the previous answerer suggested is the one in the Tate Britain- I just saw it there last week. I'm reasonably certain that one has never been in Paris.


Beyond that, this is a real head-scratcher. There's a painting of a Christian martyr by a guy named Rimbaud that hangs in the Louvre- it has no flowers and the frame is domed, like the frame of Millais' Ophelia, but it does have the man on horseback:


http://www.pierdelune.com/delaroche.jpg





There's an Ophelia by Delacroix in the Louvre:


http://shakespeare.emory.edu/illustratio鈥?/a>





J.W. Waterhouse did a famous Ophelia with a bridge in the background, but it's in a private collection, not the Louvre. Rich people do occasionally lend parts of their collections to famous museums, though- perhaps it was on loan when you were there. Of course, the problem with this one is that she's standing upright:


http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/ima鈥?/a>





Another posibility for the ';girl-in-water, man behind'; theme is another favorite with the Pre-Raphealites, the Arthurian legend of the Lady of Shalott which was adapted into a poem by Tennyson. In the course of messing around online, trying to find a solution to your problem, I stumbled upon this site:


http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/344el鈥?/a>





On that page just scroll down. The images in the left-hand column are different artistic interpretations of the story. The first several feature the woman weaving, but the later ones, which feature her dying in a boat on the river as distant people look on might be closer to what you're looking for.





I know that none of what I've propossed is an exact match for what you've suggested, but maybe it'll help point you in the right direction.





Good luck!I'm looking for an oil painting I saw at the Louvre in1988.?
I was at the Louvre just a month ago, and the painting you describe sounds very familiar to me. I remember being struck by the unusual and almost macabre theme. I will keep looking.

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I cant find it for you! but I do have 2 Henri Linquet (french artist)


that were done in 1890, oil on wood ,sighned ,original frames,if interested i can send pics !
It is called Ophelia, unless I am mistaken. Click the link below for a visual image. Ophelia is a painting by John Everett Millais, completed in 1852. It depicts the character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet singing while floating in a river just before her death by drowning, as described in the play in a famous speech by Hamlet's mother Gertrude.