La Petite Pensee

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Thomas Ball's eight-year-old niece, Annie Chickering, posted 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, the French word for '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". Thomas Ball, speaking about the sculpture in 'My Fourscore Year', said "...the little head 'La Petite Pensée'... has had such a wonderful success".

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We are an Arlington, Tx-based 3D creation studio offering 3D printing and 3D scanning services, and we love museums and art! We try to send in sculpture captures here to help expand the Scan The World effort (from which we also borrow). We owe most credit for model creation and refinement to the talented people at Scan the World unless otherwise noted! We specialize in portrait products and bobbleheads, wedding caketoppers, doll heads. See our website for more details. Models and designs of ours are published on Thingiverse with the same username.

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