Clarisse AMIC, named Mademoiselle Clarisse, is a portrait painter and genre painter, born in Aix en Provence. She was a student of the painter Hortense HAUDEBOURT-LESCOT. Then start her own career where she began to execute institutional copies, for example the Virgin with the Rosary by Murillo, copied in 1841, and first exhibited at the Louvremuseum (then deposited by this museum in 1949 at the Goya museum in Castres, and today exhibited at St Nicolas church in Villers-Cotterêts, France). In addition to institutional copies, she trains students in her studio while actively participating in the Paris Salons where she presents almost every year one or more works between 1831 and 1849.