 The Bande noire got their name after the painter Charles Cottet exhibited a painting called "The Burial" at the Paris Salon of 1894.Besides Cottet, the artists most associated with this rather loosely defined group included Lucien Simon, Émile-René Ménard, René-Xavier Prinet, and André Dauchez.Other artists with affinities to the Bande noire include Walter Gay, Gaston La Touche, and Constantin Meunier.