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The painting was done in Valdemosa, Majorca, where they were spending an autumn. Sargent's older sister Emily, is in the chair (foreground) reading a book, with their friend Eliza Wedgwood, a member of the famous porcelain manufacturing family, on the sofa (background), either reading or writing a letter. Eliza said of it,
"Sargent painted
in oils such an amusing picture of Emily and me--in what John called
'Garde
Mangers,' Emily's invention for keeping out mosquitoes."
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