Water Willow - Study of Female Head and Shoulders
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1871
Jane bears an even more soulful expression (than the finished painting), and carries, with no little irony, a pansy - conventionally a token of fidelity and rembrance. Willow branches of willow, were a symbol of sorrow - a comment by Jane or Rossetti on her marriage ?
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