A young woman with pale skin, dressed in a black and white servant’s uniform, stands reading a book behind a collection of urns, a figurine, and a stationary box arrayed on a tabletop in this vertical painting. Seen from about the hips up, the woman faces our left in profile as she gazes down at the open book in her hands. She has a turned up nose, smooth skin, and her lips are slightly parted over a rounded chin. Her blond hair is pulled up in a bun, and she wears a black dress with a wide, white collar and a white apron tied around her waist. A feather duster with a black handle is tucked…
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The House Maid

painter William McGregor Paxton (American, 1869 - 1941)

1910

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.5 × 64 cm (30 1/8 × 25 3/16 in.) ; framed: 93.3 × 80.3 × 7.6 cm (36 3/4 × 31 5/8 × 3 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1916)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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