From a low perspective, we look at a man wearing black and white, lying on the ground with a pink flag beside him in this long, horizontal painting. We look onto the top of his head and his feet reach into the upper left corner of the composition, so he nearly fills the painting. His dark hair is cut short and gleams softly in the light from the upper left. His head has fallen toward his left shoulder, and his eyes are closed. He wears a black jacket and knee-length black pants. His jacket falls open to show white lining, and he wears a wide, white cummerbund and white stockings. His black,…
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The Dead Toreador

Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

probably 1864

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.9 × 153.3 cm (29 7/8 × 60 3/8 in.) ; framed: 104.4 × 181.93 × 10.16 cm (41 1/8 × 71 5/8 × 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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