After the Bullfight
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
1873
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 110.5 × 93.4 cm (43 1/2 × 36 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Seville
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Sterling Morton
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
During her first years as a professional artist, Cassatt traveled largely on her own to study European art, including an extended stay in Italy and Spain in 1872–73. She looked especially to Renaissance and Baroque art of the 15th to 17th centuries and to the avant-garde explorations of her French contemporaries for inspiration. Cassatt harmonized these various elements in After the Bullfight, executed in Seville: The figure’s controlled, tonal modeling recalls that of Spanish Baroque painter Diego Velázquez, and the dynamic flourishes of rich pigment describing the bullfighter’s regalia evoke the modernist techniques of Frenchman Édouard Manet.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
