Her mother was Émilie-Thérèse Paton (1820 - 1887), known by the pen of Jacques Rozier, a French novelist and playwright.

Her father was economist Jules Paton, financial columnist at the Journal des débats.

[3] Jacqueline studied at the École des Beaux-arts under Alexandre Cabanel.

[1][4] She was friends with portrait painter Fanny Caillé who reproduced one of her most famous paintings, At the spring .

Her painting Mistletoe was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.