Art, literature & history
Confidence in the Garden
1894
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Collection no.
- 1923.40
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Confidence in the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Confidence in the Garden — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1894.
Medium: lithograph. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.