Catherine Duchemin, a French flower and fruit painter, was born in Paris in 1630, and died there in 1698. She married, in 1657, the sculptor Girardon, and in 1663 was received into the Academy, being the first lady on whom this honour had been conferred.
This article incorporates text from the article "DUCHEMIN, Catherine" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.