Bullfight – Death of the Bull

Bullfight – Death of the Bull (French: Corrida : la mort du taureau) is a c.1865 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet. It is now in the Art Institute of Chicago.

With Bullfight (now known as The Fall of the Bullfighter, Musée d'Orsay) and The Fall of the Picador (watercolour, private collection), it forms part of a series of works painted after Manet's return from Spain.[1] Since 1862 Manet had also already produced several works on bullfighting – two canvases produced by cutting up Episode in a Bullfight (The Dead Man and The Bullfight), Miss V Dressed as a Bullfighter, and The Matador Saluting.[2][3]

References

1. Martinez-Novillo 1988, p. 122.
2. Cachin, Moffett & Wilson Bareau 1983, p. 240.
3. Martinez-Novillo 1988, p. 121.

Sources

• Martinez-Novillo, Alvaro (1988). Le Peintre et la Tauromachie. Paris: Flammarion.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Cachin, Françoise; Moffett, Charles S.; Wilson Bareau, Juliet (1983). Manet 1832–1883. Paris: Réunion des Musées nationaux. ISBN 2711802302.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)