Mary Cassatt in the context of "Childe Hassam"

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. He is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire".

He was also a teacher with a long list of students, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, and Osman Hamdi Bey, among others.

A kiss is the touching or pressing of one's lips against another person, animal or object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely; depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, sexual activity, sexual intercourse, sexual arousal, affection, respect, greeting, peace, or good luck, among many others. In some situations, a kiss is a ritual, formal or symbolic gesture indicating devotion, respect, or a sacramental.

The word comes from Old English cyssan ('to kiss'), in turn from coss ('a kiss').

This is an incomplete list of the pupils of Jean-Léon Gérôme.

• Laureano Barrau
• Jacques Barcat
• Henri Beau
• Osman Hamdi Bey
• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
• Georges Ferdinand Bigot
• Frank Myers Boggs
• Frederick Arthur Bridgman
• George de Forest Brush
• Edwin Lord Weeks
• George Bridgman
• Dennis Miller Bunker
• Eugène Burnand
• Mary Cassatt
• Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois
• Kenyon Cox
• William de Leftwich Dodge
• Wynford Dewhurst, R.B.A.
• Thomas Millie Dow
• Thomas Eakins
• Wyatt Eaton
• Albert Edelfelt
• Delphin Enjolras
• Herbert Cyrus Farnum
• Jacques Gay
• Gabriel Guay
• Edmund Aubrey Hunt
• Paul-Eugène Mesplès
• Henri-Paul Motte
• Henry Siddons Mowbray
• Aloysius O'Kelly
• Lawton S. Parker
• William McGregor Paxton
• Paul Peel
• R. G. Harper Pennington
• William Picknell
• Théophile Poilpot
• Théodore Ralli
• Odilon Redon
• Jules Ernest Renoux
• Carl Frederick von Saltza
• Julius LeBlanc Stewart
• Abbott Handerson Thayer
• Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
• Douglas Volk
• J. Alden Weir
• William Stott of Oldham
• Hosui Yamamoto

Marie Anne Caroline Bracquemond (French pronunciation: [maʁi bʁakmɔ̃]; née Quivoron; 1 December 1840 – 17 January 1916) was a French Impressionist artist. She was one of four notable women in the Impressionist movement, along with Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and Eva Gonzalès. Bracquemond studied drawing as a child and began showing her work at the Paris Salon when she was still an adolescent. She never underwent formal art training, but she received limited instruction from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and advice from Paul Gauguin which contributed to her stylistic approach.

She married noted printmaker Félix Bracquemond, who helped popularize Japanese art in France. Together, they produced ceramic art for Haviland & Co., a manufacturer of Limoges porcelain. Marie's frequent omission from books on artists is sometimes attributed to the efforts of her husband. Although Félix participated with the Impressionist exhibitions, he notably disapproved of the movement at which his wife excelled. Indeed, Pierre Bracquemond, their son, stated that his father was jealous of Marie's work, belittled her ambition, and refused to show her paintings to visitors.

American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century. Whether a cultural portrayal or a scenic view of downtown New York City, American realist works attempted to define what was real.

In the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century a new generation of painters, writers and journalists were coming of age. Many of the painters felt the influence of older U.S. artists such as Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, and William Merritt Chase. However they were interested in creating new and more urbane works that reflected city life and a population that was more urban than rural in the U.S. as it entered the new century.