Shop art print and framed art Combat de taureaux by Edouard Manet

Combat de taureau is an oil on canvas painted by Édouard Manet between 1865 and 1866 with a posthumous signature b.d.Manet, currently in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It was painted by the painter after a trip to Spain in 1865. It is one of the Hispanic works by Manet in a period from 1862 to 1867, during which the artist painted several canvases on the theme of bullfighting. Admired and supported by Charles Baudelaire and Émile Zola, he was so strongly attacked by other critics that he kept his paintings in his studio until the Goncourt brothers paid tribute to him in 1872. On 14 September 1865, Manet wrote to Baudelaire: "? On this same theme, he also executed Le Matador saluant, L'Homme mort and La Corrida, this last work being the other cut-out from L'Épisode d'une course de taureaux (1865/1866) from which L'Homme mort is also taken". Deeply impressed by the spectacle of the bullring, Manet specified in a letter to Zacharie Astruc on 17 September 1865 that he intended to: "put on canvas the rapid appearance of this colourful assembly of people, without forgetting the dramatic part, the overturned picador and horse, ploughed by the horns of the furious bull, and the army of chulos trying to keep the animal at bay". By the time he tackled Combat de taureau, the painter had already produced other works on the theme of bullfighting (Mlle V. en costume d'espada and Épisode d'une course de taureaux), but he had not yet visited Spain. It was on his return from his trip, in 1865, [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Combat de taureaux » is kept at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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