 With each bursary providing one or two years travel and residencies at various French colonial schools and institutions it was possible for these artists to travel the world painting.The two Sociétés, and other galleries, also provided plentiful opportunities for salons and exhibitions to display, and sell, the artists' works sent back to France.Although some sources speak of a "school" of "peintres voyageurs" these painters and sculptors were only united by the inevitable "exotic" subject matter of their destinations - North Africa, Indochina, the Antilles - not by any particular artistic ethos, so cannot be called a "school" in the normal sense, even if those who won the prizes and bursaries tended to not be avant garde, and some were deeply conservative.