Véronique Gerard-Powell is chief curator and senior lecturer in the history of art at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and is a specialist in Spanish painting and the history of collecting.

Dominique Lobstein is former head of documentary studies in the painting department of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

María López Fernández is chief curator at Mapfre Foundation, Madrid.

Blanca Pons-Sorolla is the foremost scholar on the work of Joaquín Sorolla and has written and contributed to numerous books, including Sorolla: The Masterworks (Skira Rizzoli, 2012). She is the artist’s great-granddaughter.