Berthe Morisot, January 14, 1841–March 2, 1895, was a French painter and printmaker born in Bourges. After her family settled in Paris, she studied privately with Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne and Joseph Guichard, copied paintings at the Louvre, and received landscape instruction from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Achille Oudinot.

Morisot first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1864. She participated in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and in seven of the group’s eight exhibitions, alongside artists including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro. She married Eugène Manet, the brother of Édouard Manet, in 1874.

Her works are held by the Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée d’Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and other major public collections. The Musée Marmottan Monet holds the largest public collection of her work.

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Henri Fantin-Latour, January 14, 1836–August 25, 1904, was a French painter and lithographer born in Grenoble. He first studied with his father, the painter Théodore Fantin-Latour, then trained in Paris with Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran and briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts while copying Old Masters in the Louvre.

Fantin-Latour associated with Édouard Manet, James McNeill Whistler, and artists later linked to Impressionism, while maintaining an independent and more traditional practice. He became known for flower still lifes, portraits and group portraits of artists and writers, and imaginative paintings and lithographs inspired by music.

He married the painter Victoria Dubourg in 1876 and spent his later summers at her family home in Buré, where he died in 1904. His work is held by the Musée de Grenoble, Musée d’Orsay, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Tate, and other major collections.

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