15 Facts About Jacqueline Marval

Jacqueline Marval was the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet, who was a French painter, lithographer and sculptor.

Jacqueline Marval was married in 1866, to a traveling salesperson, Albert Valentin, but separated from her husband in 1891 after the death of her son.

Jacqueline Marval moved to Grenoble and worked as a seamstress sewing waistcoats before moving to Paris in 1900.

In 1900 Vallet took on the pseudonym Jacqueline Marval, "Marval" being the composite of her first and last name "MARie VALlet".

In 1894, Marval met the painter Francois Joseph Girot and began living with him in Paris, where she was introduced to Les Nabis group.

Between 1901 and 1905, Jacqueline Marval worked frequently alongside Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Flandrin, and the four influenced each other.

Jacqueline Marval exhibited in the first Salon d'Automne, in 1902, where she showed her large scale painting The Odalisques.

In 1913, Jacqueline Marval was chosen by a jury made up of Gabriel Astruc, the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, and the painters Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard to decorate the foyer of the new Theatre des Champs-Elysees.

Jacqueline Marval created a series of twelve paintings on the theme of Daphnis and Chloe.

Also in 1913, Jacqueline Marval protested against the removal from the Salon d'Automne of Kees van Dongen's The Spanish Shawl, and became friends with Van Dongen, setting up her studio near his.

Jacqueline Marval's works began to be recognized across Europe and beyond; she exhibited in Barcelona, Liege, Venice, Zurich, Budapest, and Kyoto.

Jacqueline Marval died of cancer at the Hopital Bichat in Paris in 1932.

Jacqueline Marval's painting Portrait of Dolly Davis, 1925 is in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Jacqueline Marval, who did not identify as a feminist, was appropriated by FAM as one and has since been celebrated as living a feminist life.

Since her death, Jacqueline Marval's work has been exhibited many times, most often in France.