The Bullfight

The Bullfight (La Corrida) is an 1864-1865 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Frick Collection in New York.[1][2] Its dimensions are 48x60.4 cm.[3] Like The Dead Man, it was originally part of a larger composition entitled Episode in a Bullfight. The scene was inspired by a trip that Manet took to Spain in the fall of 1865 for ten days. He described the bullfight he witnessed in a letter to Charles Baudelaire as "one of the finest, most curious and most terrifying sights to be seen."[3]

The Bullfight
ArtistÉdouard Manet
Year1864/1865
Mediumoil on canvas
LocationThe Frick Collection, New York


Bibliography

  • Anne Coffin Hanson, Manet and the modern tradition, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1977 (ISBN 0300024924)
  • (in French) Françoise Cachin, Charles S. Moffett and Juliet Wilson Bareau, Manet 1832-1883, Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1983, 544 p. (ISBN 2711802302)
  • (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 600 p.
  • (in French) Théophile Thoré-Burger and William Bürger, Salons de William Bürger, 1861-1868, avec une préface par Théophile Thoré, vol. 2, t. II, Paris, Jules Renouard, 1870
  • (in French) Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler, Baudelaire, correspondance, vol. 2, t. II, Paris, Gallimard, 1973

References

  1. (Cachin, Moffett & Wilson-Bareau 1983, p. 196)
  2. "Bullfight, 1866 by Edouard Manet". www.manet.org. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  3. "Bullfight". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2019-12-04.


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