Tea Leaves
Artist: William McGregor Paxton (American, 1869–1941)
Original Dimensions: 36 1/8" x 28 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1909) "Paxton often depicted refined upper-class women at leisure in handsome Boston interiors of the sort they would have decorated and occupied. By equating women with precious objets d’art, Paxton echoed the spirit of the novelist Henry James, who portrayed the issue of women as collectible objects in novels such as Portrait of a Lady (1881). Paxton’s restrained palette and precise rendering of figures and setting revealed his academic training in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme. His quiet, evocative paintings also suggest the Boston taste for so-called Little Dutch Masters, such as Jan Vermeer." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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