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The Outcast is an oil painting by Victorian artist Richard Redgrave, from 1851.It depicts a family's reaction to a daughter bearing an illegitimate child. The melodramatic moral work depicts a stern patriarch of inflexible puritanical morality casting out a fallen woman and her illegitimate baby – probably his daughter and grandchild – from his "respectable" house.
Fallen woman" is an archaic term which was used to describe a woman who has "lost her innocence", and fallen from the grace of God. In 19th-century Britain especially, the meaning came to be closely associated with the loss or surrender of a woman's chastity [ 2 ] and with female promiscuity .
The Penitent Magdalene is a painting of saint Mary Magdalene by ... The subject of the Magdalen as a sinner and fallen woman returned to the path of virtue by Jesus ...
By the time Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People, he was already the acknowledged leader of the Romantic school in French painting. [4] Delacroix, who was born as the Age of Enlightenment was giving way to the ideas and style of romanticism, rejected the emphasis on precise drawing that characterised the academic art of his time, and instead gave a new prominence to freely brushed colour.
Found Drowned is an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, c. 1850, inspired by Thomas Hood's 1844 poem The Bridge of Sighs. [1]The painting depicts the dead body of a woman washed up beneath the arch of Waterloo Bridge, with her lower body still immersed in the water of the River Thames. [2]
Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...
A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
The third painting is also a night scene. The details of the cloud and moon show it is the same evening as depicted in the second painting. The fallen wife is resting in the detritus-strewn shadows beneath the Adelphi Arches, by the River Thames. She clutches a bundle of rags from which protrude the emaciated legs of an infant, perhaps the ...