Bullfight (Manet)

Bullfight (French - Combat de taureau ) is an 1865-1866 painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.^[1] 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^[2][3] and Émile Zola,^[4] 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.

• List of paintings by Édouard Manet

• Cachin, Françoise; Moffett, Charles S.; Wilson-Bareau, Juliet (1983). Manet 1832–1883, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux. [Paris]: Ministère de la Culture. p. 544. ISBN 978-2-7118-0230-2.
• Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 600 p.
• Édouard Manet, Lettres d'Édouard Manet sur son voyage en Espagne, Paris, Arts, 16 mars 1945
• Claude Pichois et Jean Ziegler, Baudelaire, correspondance. Vol. 2, t. II. Paris: Gallimard. 1973.
• Zola, Émile (1867). Revue. Paris: Dentu.
• Sophie Monneret, L'Impressionnisme et son époque, vol. 2, t. 1, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1987, 997 p. (ISBN 978-2-221-05412-3)

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