Françoise Claire AMIC, known as Mademoiselle Clarisse, was a portraitist who also produced genre scenes and historical paintings. Françoise Claire AMIC was born in Aix-en-Provence on April 3, 1809. She was the youngest child of Claude Marie Toussaint AMIC, a merchant from a notarial family, and Magdeleine Laurence CAR. She grew up in the south of France in a bourgeois environment. She moved to Paris to become a student in the studio of the painter Hortense HAUDEBOURT-LESCOT. Mademoiselle Clarisse began her personal career around 1830 by making institutional copies, such as Murillo's Virgin of the Rosary (copied in 1841 and first exhibited at the Louvre. Deposited by the museum in 1949, it is now on display at the Goya Museum in Castres and is now on display at the Saint-Nicolas Church in Villers-Cotterêts). In addition to these institutional copies, she trained students in her studio while actively participating in the Parisian Salons, where she presented one or more works almost every year between 1831 and 1849. She was also a drawing teacher at the Municipal Schools of Paris. She died on December 18, 1889, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, at the age of 80, and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery.