Marie-Françoise Constance Mayer La Martinière (9 March 1775 – 26 May 1821)[1] was a French painter of portraits, allegorical subjects, miniatures and genre works.

[3] Having studied with Joseph-Benoît Suvée and Jean-Baptiste Greuze,[4] she adopted a style of soft brush strokes and made paintings of sentimental scenes like those of her instructors.

[5] Following the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, society settled into a calmer lifestyle in which miniature and portrait paintings became popular.

At the 1801 salon, she exhibited Self-Portrait with Artist's Father: He Points to a Bust of Raphael, Inviting Her to Take This Celebrated Painter as a Model.

This confusion is in large part due to the fact that the two artists collaborated on several works: he sketched the design and she made the paintings.

[7] Like Pauline Auzou, Marguerite Gérard, Antoinette Haudebourt-Lescot and Marie-Denise Villers, Mayer was one of the successful women artists following the French Revolution:[12]