清光绪二十九年(1903年),美国驻华公使康格夫人,向慈禧推荐美国女画家卡尔进宫为其画像。有趣的是,对西洋画一无所知的慈禧,在画像之前,曾急不可耐地提出过不少问题,如为什么要坐着画呀?别人能否代坐?是否每天都要穿一样的衣服、戴一样的首 Twenty-nine years Guangxu (1903), the US ambassador to Conger, the Empress recommended the United States female painter Carl Palace for its portrait. What is interesting is that before the portrait, the Empress, who knew nothing about western painting, had eagerly asked many questions, such as why he had to sit and paint, whether others could sit on behalf of each other, and whether to wear the same every day Clothes, wearing the same first