Looking Paper

In The Countess Von Schonfeld with Her Daughter, Elisabeth Louise Vigee- Lebrun used size and placement to accent the figures of the mother and the young daughter. Elisabeth set the pair in the foreground, and she posed them so that their visual weights combined to form a single mass, the largest form in the movie. Strongly contrasting values of light skin against a sentinel background add further emphasis. Within this emphasis area, Elizabeth uses color of perspective to create a focal point on the little girls whiteness dress and the mothers dress.Elisabeth has subordinated the background so that it does not interfere, blurring the detail and working in a narrow range of light values. The painting is oil on canvas art piece painted in 1973. It is a painting of a women holding her daughter on her lap, the women being The Grafin von Schonfeld. The woman is garbed in this beautiful red dress from the upper class or a royalty stature in the late 1700s. The clothing looks blue gr een with red.She has a covering on her head that looks like an extravagant scarf that drapes over her shoulder on one side, in like manner do of the dame silky significant used for her dress. The woman has pale skin, reddish browned hair, bluish eyes, and rosy cheeks. Her eyes look very original and penetrating when you examine the painting. The daughter is about the age of 5 or 6 years old. Her arms are around her mothers neck and legs draped across her mothers lap.The daughter is exhausting a white fluid dress that looks thin in material with red sash around her midsection. The daughter has the same reddish brown hair and rosy cheeks. The mothers and daughters eyes are equally as enlarged n size, while the childs eyes seem also very real and youthful. The women and daughter are sitting on a bench of some sort on a ledge of a window open. Outside the window there is landscaping of mountains, trees and stormy chuck. The sky is rich with high value of grays including the wh ites of the clouds.