Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734 – 1772)

• Known as Madame Roslin.
• Was a French painter, miniaturist, and pastellist, known for her portraits.
• Marie-Suzanne Giroust was born and lived her whole life in Paris.

• She was the daughter of Barthélemy Giroust, Jeweller to Le Garde-robe de roi and Marie Suzanne Le Roy.

• Orphaned at an early age, she was raised by relatives.

• She studied art under Maurice Quentin de La Tour and then of Joseph-Marie Vien.

• Giroust was active as an artist from the 1750s. 

• She met the Swedish artist Alexander Roslin at Vien's studio in 1752.

• After rejecting the suitors suggested by her guardian, she was allowed to marry Roslin after mediation from Roslin's patron, the Comte de Caylus.

• The couple had three daughters and three sons.

• Giroust was a pastel painter.

• In 1770, Giroust was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.

• Marie-Suzanne Giroust died of breast cancer in 1772, aged 38.

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