She was born in 1760 in Paris as daughter of Etienne Charles de Noiretterre and sister of Valentin de Noiretterre, niece of Claude Bornet [fr] ’s wife and perhaps cousin of Guillaume Voiriot ’s brother-in-law.

Her autoportrait at the 1787 exhibition was previously shown in London, as her reception piece at the Society of Artists in 1785 where she appeared, as “Mlle de Noireterre, Paris”.

Encouraged by the Society’s corresponding member in Paris, Charles-Étienne Gaucher (1740 – 1804) whom she portrayed in miniature, as well as his wife, she applied for membership in november 1786 in a letter, and was elected unanimously.

[2][3] Her drawing is faultless and she captures the sitter's expression in representing its inner psychological dimension.

But the most amazing feature of this work is the great attention of particulars and the sense of realism in the definition of the faces wonderfully modeled through a delicate game of nuances.