The Dead Toreador
The story
A bullfighter lies dead in his costume on the sand of the ring. Manet painted this in 1864 as part of a larger bullfighting scene, but cut it down after critics mocked the original composition. What remains is startlingly cool and detached.
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Year
- 1864
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- National Gallery of Art .
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
