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After the Bullfight

A work made of oil on canvas.
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  • A work made of oil on canvas.

Date:

1873

Artist:

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

About this artwork

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.

Status

On View, Gallery 182

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Mary Cassatt

Title

After the Bullfight

Place

Seville (Object made in:)

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1873

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Signed recto, bottom-left, in paint: "M.S.C. / Seville / 1873".

Dimensions

110.5 × 93.4 cm (43 1/2 × 36 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Mrs. Sterling Morton

Reference Number

1969.332

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