She first studied art with her father, then at the École Duperré, where her teachers included Fernand Pelez.

[citation needed] Her talent as a portrait painter led to her 1903 induction into the Société des Artistes Français, when she was 21.

[citation needed] In a 1912 inventory of French sculptors by the Royal Institute of British Architects, she and Fanny Marc were the only two women.

[1] Diéterle directed the creation of the frescos and stained glass windows in the Notre-Dame-du-Calvaire church in the Paris suburb of Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine in the 1920s and 1930s.

[1] She painted a portrait of singer Marya Freund, who was hiding in Diéterle's home, fleeing the Nazi occupation of France.