Definitively renouncing his pastiches of Leys, M. James Tissot Figure 31 enters . . . the heart of modern life: it is doubtless on the banks of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Outing in a Rowboat, the lie de Croissy, facing Bougival, that the Confidence is taking 1866. Oil on canvas, 67.9 x 90.8 cm (26% X place whose image he shows us without clearly revealing the 3 35 A in.). Private collec- secret. The branches of the willows are discreetly entangled tion. Christie's Images, around them . . . , no breeze disturbs the water; everything is New York. silent, and these two young women, leaning toward each other, may, without fear of being surprised, impart . . . the confidence 54 that has perhaps been long hidden deep in the heart. Gautier's insistence on the relationship between the subject and the enfolding landscape is particularly relevant to the image of a different sort of privacy in La Promenade. 47