Rappresentazioni della donna nella pittura vittoriana

Donna liliale

Convent Thoughts, Charles Allston Collins, 1851, Oil on canvas. Arched top, 33 1/8 x 23 1/4 inches, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

…. To watch, and to wait, to renew, to redeem, and to regenerate the mission of woman on Earth! ………………….born to nurse, and to soothe, and to solace, to help and to heal The sick world that leans on her. This was Lucile! Owen Meredith, Lucile 1860

Donna fiore: Verena Tarrant, The Bostonians (1886) by H. James: “The sweetest flower of character that ever bloomed on earth”

Woman’s Mission, Companion Of Manhood by George Elgar Hicks, 1863

La fallen woman

The Outcast by Richard Redgrave, RA Oil on canvas, 31 x 41 inches. Royal Academy of the Arts, London.

Richard Redgrave, RA. Ed. Susan P. Casteras and Ronald Parkinson. New Haven and London: Yale U P. 1988: “Here a stern patriarch evicts his daughter and her illegitimate baby into literal cold, for snow falls beyond the threshold. A brother buries his head to weep while various sisters cry and plead with their father, but to no avail. On the floor there lies what appears to be an incriminating letter, and on the wall hangs a didactic print which seemingly reinforce the drama, perhaps that of Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishamael, or Christ and the woman taken in adultery. [136]

Augustus Leopold Egg, Past and Present, No.1, The Infidelity Discovered, 1858 Oil on canvas, support: 635 x 762 mm frame: 801 x 925 x 85 mm