The Bullfight

The Bullfight
ArtistÉdouard Manet
Year1864/1865
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions47.9 cm × 108.9 cm (18.9 in × 42.9 in)
LocationThe Frick Collection, New York

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 48×60.4 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 for ten days in the fall of 1865. 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]

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