Marie Nicolas

{{short description|French painter}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Marie Joséphine Nicolas

| image = Marie Nicolas - Self-portrait.jpg

| caption = Self-portrait (1871)

| birth_date = 25 July 1845

| birth_place = Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne

| death_date = 1903

| nationality = French

}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/espace-professionnels/professionnels/chercheurs/rech-rec-art-home/notice-artiste.html?nnumid=19024|title=Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Artiste|website=www.musee-orsay.fr|access-date=2020-01-27}} She was a pupil of Levasseur and Charles Joshua Chaplin and is known for portraits and genre works.[http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00130357?rskey=x987Rc&result=23 NICOLAS, Marie Joséphine (born 1845), Painter] in Bénézit 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.[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h/39000-h.htm Women Painters of the World] on Project Gutenberg Her self-portrait is preserved in the local museum of her hometown.