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The Bullfight | |
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Artist | Édouard Manet |
Year | 1864/1865 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 47.9 cm × 108.9 cm (18.9 in × 42.9 in) |
Location | The 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]