The Governess: A Portrait of Middle-Class Employment
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The Governess: A Portrait of Middle-Class Employment is a Victorian-era painting by Rebecca Solomon that highlights the social isolation and precarious status of a middle-class governess within a bourgeois household.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Victorian-era artwork
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painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | Victorian social realism ⓘ |
| artisticIntention |
critique of social inequality
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sympathetic representation of governesses ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Rebecca Solomon’s interest in women’s social conditions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Rebecca Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorGender | female artist ⓘ |
| depictionType | figurative painting ⓘ |
| depicts |
bourgeois household
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governess ⓘ middle-class employment ⓘ precarious social status ⓘ social isolation ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
conditions of middle-class women who had to work
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female professional employment in the 19th century ⓘ |
| genre | genre painting ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Victorian middle-class domestic ideology
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rise of paid female domestic educators ⓘ |
| interpretedAs |
exploration of liminal class identity
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feminist-leaning social critique ⓘ |
| mainSubject | middle-class governess ⓘ |
| medium | oil painting ⓘ |
| movement | Victorian art ⓘ |
| narrativeType | domestic narrative scene ⓘ |
| portrays |
ambiguous social position of governesses
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emotional distance between governess and employing family ⓘ tension between respectability and dependence ⓘ |
| relatedOccupationDepicted | governess as live-in employee GENERATED ⓘ |
| setInEnvironment | middle-class domestic interior ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 19th-century Britain ⓘ |
| socialCommentaryOn |
dependence of unmarried middle-class women
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employment options for educated women ⓘ power imbalance between employers and governesses ⓘ |
| subjectMatterCategory |
domestic service and education
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women in the workplace ⓘ |
| theme |
class distinctions
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domestic labor ⓘ gender roles ⓘ marginalization within the middle class ⓘ social hierarchy ⓘ women’s work ⓘ |
| visualContrastBetween | governess and bourgeois family members ⓘ |
| visualMotif |
differences in dress indicating status
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separation within the same room ⓘ |
| workTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
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