Bullfight (French - Combat de taureau ) is an 1865-1866 painting by
Édouard Manet, now in the
Musée d'Orsay in
Paris.[1] It was produced after the artist's trip to Spain in 1865 and forms part of his Spanish period (1862-1867).
The painting depicts a rare event in the Spanish bullfight, when the bull manages to attack and bring down the horse. Admired and backed by
Charles Baudelaire[2][3] and
Émile Zola,[4] the work was so strongly attacked by other art critics that Manet kept it in his studio until 1872, when the
Frères Goncourt praised it.
Cachin, Françoise; Moffett, Charles S.; Wilson-Bareau, Juliet (1983). Manet 1832–1883, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux. [Paris]: Ministère de la Culture. p. 544.
ISBN978-2-7118-0230-2.
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 600 p.
Édouard Manet, Lettres d'Édouard Manet sur son voyage en Espagne, Paris, Arts, 16 mars 1945
Claude Pichois et Jean Ziegler, Baudelaire, correspondance. Vol. 2, t. II. Paris: Gallimard. 1973.
Zola, Émile (1867). Revue. Paris: Dentu.
Sophie Monneret, L'Impressionnisme et son époque, vol. 2, t. 1, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1987, 997 p. (
ISBN978-2-221-05412-3)