Victorian Women though the male gaze ADD NOTES

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 Contemplating the life/ role of the Victorian woman through the male gaze of Victorian art.

The title really says it all, "Woman's Mission: companion to manhood" 
No interests or identity of her own, a perfect, doting wife.

"Can These Dry Bones Live" Henry Alexander Bowler 1855 (an illustraion to Tennysons poem " Memoriam"
The woman in this painting could be the poster girl for my whole project. A  woman in mourning  through the Victorian male gaze. A pefect, doting widow.




"Pretty Baa Lambs" Ford Madox Brown 1851, A perfect, doting mother.


"Madonna and Child" William Dyce. The Perfect woman













Photo portrait 1851


"Ophelia" John Everett Millais 1851




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