[1] Ring suggests in the painting human frailty by equating Sigrid's stomach with the vegetation's almost crippled stem and branch structure.

It has been interpreted as the artist's "reminder of the fragility that also includes the emerging life as perceived by man and nature."

In recent years, the field of art history has generally accepted that these two aspects of his work are equally important and complement each other.

The painting adds to a number of Danish artists' monumental portraits of women and wives from the turn of the 20th century.

[3] In the garden door was featured in season 1 of the Danish TV series Rita.