Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux (1770 - 1826) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

. Like her sister, Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux , was a French neoclassical, historical and genre painter.-Biography:She was born in Paris, the daughter of a civil servant...

, she studied (in 1787) under David

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

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Her mother, Marguerite-Marie Lombard, was from Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

 and her father, René Laville-Leroux was from Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

. She sometimes exhibited with her sister Marie-Guillemine

Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux , was a French neoclassical, historical and genre painter.-Biography:She was born in Paris, the daughter of a civil servant...

, as in the exhibition at la place Dauphine in 1786 where she displayed Dame en satin blanc, garnie de marte; and in 1788, Artémise serre sur son cœur l'urne contenant les cendres de Mausole; and in 1789, Une Vestale infidèle. In 1791, she exhibited Artémise in the Salon de l'Académie.

In 1794, she married baron

Baron

Baron is a title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and Latin baro meaning " man, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English beorn meaning "nobleman"...

 Dominique Larrey.