Lady Caroline Lamb (Print)

Product Description

Lady Caroline Lamb

03/2025

Watercolour

Paper: Hahnemuhle GF CP (300 lbs)
30 x 40 cm (11,8’’ x 15,7”)


About this artwork

Lady Caroline Lamb emerges from the canvas like a flickering memory—elegant, unpredictable, and forever marked by the fire of passion. Her gaze, distant yet piercing, seems to linger on a world that no longer belongs to her, a world that once burned with the intensity of forbidden love. The flowing red of her hair is both a flame and a warning, a visual echo of her tempestuous nature and her descent into self-destruction.

The opium poppies in the composition are not merely flowers; they are symbols of escape, a sedative for a restless mind caught between longing and ruin. The stark contrast of the background—light and shadow, dream and reality—reinforces the duality of her fate. The structured black-and-white form dissolving into the rich, chaotic red suggests the unraveling of identity, the loss of control in the face of emotional extremes. In this portrait, Lady Caroline is neither hero nor victim, but a reflection of human fragility—intense, fleeting, and unforgettable.

* Please note that the framed artwork is an example of the interior view and is based on imagination only. 

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