Marie–Marguerite Oudry, née Froissé (1688–1780) was a French engraver and painter. Born in Paris, Oudry studied with

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Ch ...

, whom she married in 1709.Profile
in the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. The couple would have thirteen children, only five of whom, two sons and three daughters, were still alive at the time of her death. Their daughter married the painter

Antoine Boizot Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) was a French sculptor whose models for biscuit figures for Sèvres porcelain are better-known than his large-scale sculptures. Biography Boizot was the son of Antoine Boizot, a designer at the Gobelins manu ...

. Marie–Marguerite Oudry produced engravings after her husband's paintings; she also produced portraits in

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 ...

of him and of one of their sons. She died of an illness in her Paris home.

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