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Symphony in White No. 3 is a painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The work shows two women dressed in white one sitting on a sofa and the other resting on the floor. The model on the sofa is Joanna Heffernan the artist’s mistress. By calling the painting Symphony in White No. 3 Whistler intended to emphasise his artistic philosophy of corresponding arts inspired by the poet Charles Baudelaire.
