Monday, July 14, 2025

Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)

Bullfight (French - Combat de taureau ) is an 1865-1866 painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It was produced after the artist's trip to Spain in 1865 and forms part of his Spanish period (1862-1867). 
The painting depicts a rare event in the Spanish bullfight, when the bull manages to attack and bring down the horse. Admired and backed by Charles Baudelaire and Émile Zola, the work was so strongly attacked by other art critics that Manet kept it in his studio until 1872, when the Frères Goncourt praised it. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfight_(Manet)

Bullfight
1865-66
Oil on canvas
89 x 111 cm
Musée d'Orsay
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/combat-de-taureaux-711

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