Jean Marchand (1883-1940) was a French painter of landscapes, figure compositions, still-life, and occasional decorative schemes. He was born in Paris and studied there at the École des Beaux-Arts, 1902–9, whilst supporting himself by designing jewellery, textiles, and other types of applied art.

In about 1912 he also experimented with Cubism and occasionally with Futurist multiple images, but soon after this he settled into a style of vigorous naturalism akin to that of Derain. When some of his work was shown at a mixed exhibition at the Carfax Gallery, London, in 1915, Clive Bell wrote: ‘No living painter is more purely concerned with the creation of form and the emotional significance of shapes and colours than Marchand'.