Victoria Dubourg

Victoria Dubourg, V Dubourg, or Victoria Fantin-Latour (1 December 1840 – 30 September 1926) was a French portrait and still life painter in France during the Impressionist period and the cultural flowering of the Belle Époque period that was a reaction to the former. Dubourg was born in Paris and trained with artist Fanny Chéron While there, she met the painter Henri Fantin-Latour, whom she married in 1876 and after which she collaborated with, on his floral paintings. Dubourg has been critiqued incorrectly by some as an artist whose work lacks originality, alleged to simply have reproduced the styles of her husband, however, a careful review of her early work shows that Dubourg began producing still life paintings two years prior to meeting Fantin-Latour and that her paintings had been admitted for exhibition at eight salons prior to her marriage, signifiying her acceptance as an established painter in a very competitive art milieu. Her painting A Basket of Flowers was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.