She is the daughter of François-Joseph Riché (1765 - 1838), chief gardener of the Paris Jardin des Plantes.
[1] She worked most of her life as a botanical painter for the French Natural History Museum in Paris.
There, she painted numerous watercolor on vellum for the Museum's collection, as well as illustrating François André Michaux's 1813 Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amerique Septentrionale (History of septentrional American forest trees).
Her techniques included botanical, entomological, and natural painting, oil, watercolor, and on vellum, and engraving, as well as hand-colouring.
Riché worked primarily in watercolor and her subject of choice was often women, flowers, or fruit.