Marie Nicolas

Marie Joséphine Nicolas
Self-portrait (1871)
Born25 July 1845
Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne
Died1903
NationalityFrench

Marie Joséphine Nicolas (1845 – 1903) was a French painter.

Nicolas was born in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne and was also known as Marie Nicholas or Marie Joséphine Drapier.[1] She was a pupil of Levasseur and Charles Joshua Chaplin and is known for portraits and genre works.[2] She first showed work at the Paris Salon in 1867 and her 1882 work Father Ricard was included in the book Women Painters of the World.[3] Her self-portrait is preserved in the local museum of her hometown.

  1. ^ "Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Artiste". www.musee-orsay.fr. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  2. ^ NICOLAS, Marie Joséphine (born 1845), Painter in Bénézit
  3. ^ Women Painters of the World on Project Gutenberg