Born in Paris, Marchand studied part-time at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts between 1902-9. He exhibited at the Salon des Independants from 1908 and also at the Salons d'Automne and Tuileries. His paintings show a reconciliation between the formal simplifications of Cezanne and the colour simplifications of Gauguin. There was also some affinity with the work of Braque and Dufy in their immediately post-Fauvist period.

When some of his work was shown in a collective 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'.

His work is held in public collections worldwide. This work would appear to date from the 1920s.