Renée-Élisabeth Marlié Lépicié

Renée-Élisabeth Marlié (1714 – 27 March 1773, in Paris) was an 18th-century French engraver.

Biography The daughter of a master writer, Marlié married François-Bernard Lépicié in 1732, an engraver who taught her his art and, according to Pierre-Jean Mariette, used her skill in several of his own works. She signed various prints with her name: Le Contrat de mariage, after Carle (or Charles André) van Loo; la Piémontaise, after Noël Hallé; les Éléments, 4 pieces in-4°, after Étienne Jeaurat; la Jeunesse sous les habillements de la Décrépitude, after Charles Antoine Coypel; a copy of the Bénédicité and la Mère laborieuse by Jean-Siméon Chardin; le Philosophe, le Buveur and le Cuisinier flamand, after David Teniers the Younger; Saint Jean-Baptiste after Raphael and l’Évêque Fléchier after Hyacinthe Rigaud; the portraits of C. Mellan and Fléchier, for the suite by , la Vie champêtre, after François Boucher (1741); l’Amour moissonneur et l’Amour oiseleur by the same artist, Le Déjeuné, a print with the mention: "Engraved etchings by Lépicié" but Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc attributes the work to her. Besides these works previously mentioned, the following engravings are also signed simply Lépicié:

Caffé charmant ta liqueur agréable De Bacchus calme les accès Ton feu divin dissipe de la table Et les dégoûts et les excès.

Le Cuisinier Flamand

She died in the dwelling occupied by her husband in the Louvre, which had been left to her. Her son, the painter Nicolas Bernard Lépicié designed boards for the continuation of l’Histoire de France, which was finished by Jean-Michel Moreau.