The Lady of Charity (French - La Dame de charité) is a 1773 oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

After artistic studies in Lyon then in Paris, Greuze exhibited in the Salon of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts for the first time in 1755, where he showed The Father explaining the Bible to his Children and three other paintings.

For the Academy, Greuze was "incapable of painting the passions or representing history with the desired nobility and grandeur".

This didactic work owes its success to the rise of a bourgeois moralist mentality which did not spare the noble class.

Diderot, the famous writer, a great admirer of Greuze, described him as an artist of morality: "Here is our painter and mine, the first among us who thought of giving mores to art".