Marie Thérèse de Noireterre (1760–1823)

• Was a French miniaturist.
• She was born in 1760 in Paris as daughter of Etienne Charles de Noiretterre and sister of Valentin de Noiretterre.

• She was one of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s female pupils as Marie-Gabrielle Capet.

• She showed miniatures in the Salon de la Correspondance in 1786 and 1787 and in the Salon (Paris) from 1791 to 1803.

• 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 whom she portrayed in miniature, as well as his wife, she applied for membership in November 1786 in a letter and was elected unanimously.

• She lived in Paris first at 25, rue Mazarine and then 290, rue St Honorè. 

• An inventory in the Archives nationales suggests the date of her death was May 2, 1823.

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