Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux (27 March 1770 – 23 July 1842) was a French painter. Like her sister, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, she studied (in 1787) under David.
Her mother, Marguerite-Marie Lombard, was from Toulouse and her father, René Laville-Leroux was from Brittany. She sometimes exhibited with her sister Marie-Guillemine, and with Henriette, born in 1772. as in the exhibition at la place Dauphine in 1786 where she displayed Dame en satin blanc, garnie de marte; and in 1788, Artémise serre sur son cœur l'urne contenant les cendres de Mausole; and in 1789, Une Vestale infidèle. In 1791, she exhibited Artémise in the Salon de l'Académie.
In 1794 she married Dominique Larrey.
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Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 1967, page 244, note 1 (not seen) Astrid Reuter, Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist, Gestaltungsraüme einer Künstlerin um 1800 (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2002), pp. 109–111