Dead Toreador
Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
1867–68
- Medium
- Etching, aquatint, and drypoint in black on buff laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 9.7 × 19.5 cm (3 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Plate: 10.8 × 20.5 cm (4 5/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 15.7 × 23.3 cm (6 3/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Dr. Eugene A. Solow; William McCallin McKee Memorial and Joseph T. Ryerson endowments; Print and Drawing Club Fund
- 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
The Salon on 1864 included Manet's painting Episode from a Bullfight, which he later divided into two fragments, both reworked as single compositions. One of the fragments, the Dead Toreador (now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), was first exhibited in 1867, and the etching shown here dates from that time or shortly after. The etching itself was exhibited in the Salon of 1869 with Exotic Flower, which is stylistically similar and also of a Spanish theme.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
