[1] Unlike her sisters, she remained unmarried and became one of the few women in contemporary art that made a living through painting.

She was a student of François-Guillaume Ménageot in the early 1770s, with whom she lived and worked in a house acquired by the art dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, next to the studio of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1755–1842), France's leading woman painter.

At the time of her death, she only left 10 Francs in cash and clothing and linen valued at 181 Francs and 50 Centimes,[1] which amounts to only US$52 in cash and US$5,500 for the clothing and linen in today's currency.

[4] She took part in numerous Salons,[5] for example, her first solo exhibition was held at Pahin de la Blancherie's Salon de Correspondance in 1779,[4][6] where she exhibited a now untraced portrait of the Princess Lamballe (57 x 45 cm).

[7] Five years after the Parisian Salon allowed women to participate, she exhibits there for the first time in 1796.