• Was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
• La Fargue was born as the daughter of the notary and orangist pamphletist Jean Thomas la Fargue and Charlotte Constantia van Nieuwland.
• Her father was a fleeing Huguenot.
• She had four older brothers.
• She learned to draw and paint from her brothers Paulus Constantijn la Fargue and Jacob Elias la Fargue.
• Maria la Fargue is best known for her cityscapes, genre paintings and prints.
• Together with her brothers she worked in a family studio where they produced prints and illustrations for books.
• For example, she made prints for the Haagsche princelyke and koninglyke almanach of 1788.
• After the studio went bankrupt, La Fargue started giving drawing lessons.
• She died at the age of 70 in the hospital and refugee home on the Lange Beestenmarkt.
