Jeanne-Marie Grandon, later Grétry (1746–1807) was a French painter. Grandon was likely born in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, the daughter of Lyonnais painter , and was one of a number of members of the family to become artists. She married composer

André Grétry André Ernest Modeste Grétry (; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality. He is most famous ...

in Paris in 1771, having already given birth to the first of their three daughters. All three died before the age of twenty, although Lucile had already begun to attract some notice for her compositions. The three were the subject of a

pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...

by their mother which hung in the bedroom of the family residence, the Ermitage at Montmorency. Also recorded are portraits of her husband. Grandon herself was painted by Adèle Romany. The location of her death is unknown, but is presumed to be

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

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in the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.

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1746 births 1807 deaths French women painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French women artists Artists from Lyon French pastel artists Women pastel artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub