 She was often influenced by etiquette books, which resulted in attention to details in the settings such as bowls of fruits and neatly designed flower arrangements.Etiquette also affected the activities of the picture's subjects—women were engaged in womanly activities and everyone played their heteronormative roles.Painted in a palette of bright, crisp colors, her canvases are refined in execution and smoothly finished, although in later years her brushstrokes became drier and looser.