The truth about “The little girl with the thorn.” “La Nigüenta” “Chubby Fingers” or “This Little Piggy.”
I had seen this image for years in houses, in the fields in Latin America, and I remember something about a girl counting the toes or something like that. Naturally, my first instinct was to dive headfirst into the internet. And there was the image I had in mind, or so I thought, because studying this image led me down a rabbit hole of research and different names for the same painting: “Chubby Fingers” and “This Little Piggy.” I realized that several antique dealers had different versions of it, but all seemed to agree that it was probably from the Victorian era, according to its style, at least from the…



