Claim: Victoria Dubourg trained with Fanny Chéron and married a painter, with whom she collaborated on floral paintings.
Evidence: She collaborated with him on floral paintings, but also produced works under her own name that she signed "V Dubourg". There she met the painter Henri Fantin-Latour, whom she married in 1876. Dubourg was born in Paris and trained with Fanny Chéron, copying old masters such as Willem Kalf in the Louvre.