Hugo was born in Paris in 1797, daughter of Jean Jacques Duvidal de Montferrier (1752-1829) and Jeanne Delon (ca 1770-1831).

She was a student of Jacques-Louis David, and later François Gérard and Marie-Éléonore Godefroid.

[3][4] Of her original works, many portraits and historical paintings were shown at the Salon from 1819 to 1827.

She painted two mythological scenes to be hung above doors in the Château de Rambouillet; these headpieces are now kept in the Louvre.

[7] She was the art tutor for Adèle Foucher, the wife of Victor Hugo.