Henri Fantin-Latour
Back in Paris, Dubourg was trained by Fanny Chéron (1830-?), a woman painter originally from Mortagne who opened a workshop for young girls. A music lover and pianist, Dubourg also studied painting and copied the major works of artists such as Willem Kalf at the Louvre. There, she met Henri Fantin-Latour, who painted his first portrait of her in 1873. They later married in 1876.