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Confidence in the Garden

James McNeill WhistlerLinkedCulture matchlcp-0aefef365bf7

Date: 1894
Medium: lithograph
Culture: America
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 105206

According to the artist's correspondence with the printerThomas Way, this image was initially called The Sisters,but Whistler decided to alter its title to Confidencesin the Garden. The lithograph shows his wife, BeatrixWhistler, and her sister, Ethel Birnie Philip, absorbedin conversation as they stroll through the Whistlers'lush, late-summer garden at 110 rue de Bac, Paris. The abbreviated suggestions of blossoms, climbing vines,and a grassy path are typical of the artist's late depictions of nature.

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Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King

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