Bullfight
1865
Édouard Manet captures the gritty, sun-drenched drama of a Spanish bullring in this vibrant, chaotic scene. Fresh from a trip to Spain in 1865, he was so obsessed with the culture that he painted this intense moment, complete with matadors, a charging bull, and a fallen horse. Interestingly, this canvas is actually a chopped-up fragment of a much larger, unfinished masterpiece called Episode in a Bullfight that he abandoned. It perfectly shows his loose brushwork that helped pave the way for the Impressionists.
- Technique
- Oil on canvas
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