Analysis Of Élisabeth Louise Vorlée's Painting 'Madame Grand'

This painting is called Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée, 1761–1835) and it is oil on canvas. The artists name is Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris). It is a representational painting of a lady is sitting on what looks like a chair and is looking off and up to her right. She has a giant blue ribbon on the top of her hair that matches the bow on the front of her dress. She looks as if she is thinking of something that will make her happy or as if she was looking out the window because there is a light coming from where she is looking. On her wrist that is showing it looks as if she has a bracelet but when you zoom in it actually apart of her dress and it is silky. She is not wearing any jewelry that is visible.
The way she is looking to right could be where the pianist is located or whomever is there with her and she is in the midst of a song. When looking at the painting I would say her weight is facing more towards the inside of the chair like she is leaning into something. The balance as a whole of the lady sitting in the chair is positioned just right and how when you look at it, it is fairly even. The texture of her dress seems quite rough and somewhat silky with the parts of her dress that are around wrist. Her skin is very soft and pale looking like a porcelain doll. It reminds me of a baby doll or an American girl doll that I received when I was younger. Her hair is quite puffy up top and almost reminds me of a wig with curls showing at the bottom of it and onto her chest. I do notice that it seems as there is low relief going on because the figure is almost on the same plane as the background. The lady is sitting still and not moving around so there is no dynamic motion being shown. The lady’s left arm which is towards our right side looks like it is overlapping. Her arm is blending in with the background. The artist does a great job using soft edged lines that are softer than a hard-edged line