可否一睹真容?
華盛頓哥倫比亞特區, 美國
归属已知。今日是否在展,馆方并未说明,而我们不敢妄加揣测。
Thomas Ball’s eight-year-old niece, Annie Chickering, posed for this sculpture in the late 1860s. The figure appears deep in thought, gazing down at the pansies and lilies on her bodice. The title of the piece is likely a pun combining the words “pansy” and pensée, which means “thought.” The sculpture also illustrates a line from act 4 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which Ophelia says to Laertes: “. . . and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts.”
史密森尼美國藝術博物館