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A farm in or near Maladrie, a small country town in the province of Namur, Belgium. On another page from his sketchbook Whistler drew his companion, Ernest Delannoy (d. 1869/1872), sleeping on a bench at the end of a bed, and this was similarly inscribed, A la ferme de Maladrie [M.0230]. The two artists probably slept and ate at farms along their route; this could be the farmhouse kitchen, where labourers ate at the long table.