[1] After displaying a talent for drawing, she received lessons in Paris from Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Gérard van Spaendonck.

[3] Later, they lived at the court in Versailles, where the Marquise de Grollier became friends with the portrait painter Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Le Brun would often mention Grollier in her diaries, describing her as “always simple and natural, and never showed any pretension, nor an ounce of pedantry.”[4] The Marquise was attracted to the gardens at Versailles and later created one of her own in Lainville-en-Vexin.

Joseph-Marie Vien, Director of the French Academy in Rome, arranged for her return to France.

She settled in with her nephew, Alexandre-Charles-Emmanuel de Crussol [fr], at his château in Épinay-sur-Seine, where she practiced horticulture as well as painting.

She settled with Alexandre-Charles-Emmanuel de Crussol—who she referred to as her "nephew" although they were not related and he was only one year younger[3]—at his château in Épinay-sur-Seine, where she practiced horticulture as well as painting.

In 1823, she prevailed upon the engineer, Louis-Georges Mulot, to create an artesian aquifer in the château's park to provide clean drinking water for the local villagers.