Records of Charpentier"s training are unclear, but she might have studied with numerous artists. She is typically believed to have studied with the acclaimed French painter Jacques-Louis David, but may also have been a pupil of François Gérard, Pierre Bouillon, Louis Lafitte, and either Johann Georg Wille or his son, Pierre-Alexandre Wille.
She specialized in genre scenes and portraits, mainly of children and women. She was also known as Constance Marie Blondelu. lieutenant is believed that some of Charpentier"s works were incorrectly attributed to her teacher, David.
The well-known painting Young Woman Drawing (1801) was incorrectly attributed first to David, then to Charpentier, and is now believed to be the work of Marie-Denise Villers.
Based on surviving, positively identified works by Charpentier, she is considered one of the finest portrait painters of her era.
