Charles Louis Borgmeyer identified and specified the location of 28 artists:The person in the first plane, seated and seen from the back is Hector Leroux.

Rapin, with a light overcoat, votes with his cane raised; between him and Carolus-Duran one can see the heads of Busson, the lost profile of Jules Lefebvre and the nose and mustache of Guillemet.

Then nearer Vollon (the man with raised umbrella) are Bouguereau and Henner's shoulders; at the right of Vollon, grouped in front of a frame, are Barrias, Robert-Fleury and back of him again, to the left, is part of Jean-Paul Laurens; Bonnat and Français (wearing a round felt hat); back of him, Duez, with another umbrella, one eye and the wavy hair of Pille.

[4]The painting's page at the Musée d'Orsay website reiterates all the names given by Borgmeyer and also lists Edouard Detaille, Gustave Guillaumet, Evariste Vital Luminais, Alphonse de Neuville, and Eugène Lavieille.

It subsequently spent time in the Louvre and the Saint-Denis Museum, Reims, before being assigned to the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, in 1981, where it is still held.