Jacqueline Marval was the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet (19 October 1866 – 28 May 1932), who was a French painter, lithographer and sculptor.

"[5] In 1894, Marval met the painter François Joseph Girot [fr] and began living with him in Paris, where she was introduced to Les Nabis group.

[7] As an artist, Marval worked primarily as a painter; however, she also made "lithographs, watercolours, pastels, engravings, tapestry designs and experimented with sculpture.

"[6] Vallet's first works were rejected from the 1900 Salon des Indépendants, but she succeeded in having a dozen paintings shown in that exhibition the following year, in 1901.

[1] In 1913, Marval was chosen by a jury made up of Gabriel Astruc, the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, and the painters Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard to decorate the foyer of the new Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

[1] Marval's works began to be recognized across Europe and beyond; she exhibited in Barcelona, Liège, Venice, Zurich, Budapest, and Kyoto.

In a 1911 issue of The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, for example, it was written that at an exhibition at the Druet Gallery, "The paintings of Madame Marval were among the most striking..."[12] Apollinaire, aside from his compliments to Les Odalisques, more generally makes comments on her work that refer to it as exciting, strong, and worthy of recognition.

[14] The Papillon Gallery wrote that "Marval's paintings are provocative and edgy, challenging and unusual, she was an important modernist at the earliest moments of the movement.