The Dead Toreador (Le torero mort)

Édouard Manet1864

Details

Title: The Dead Toreador (Le torero mort)
Creator: Édouard Manet
Date Created: 1864
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate
Set or Series Title: Manet (Edmond Bazire)
Print State: Fifth of seven states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1949
Materials & Techniques: Etching on leaf from bound volume
Keywords: death, Spain, sports
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: From facing p. 16 of Edmond Bazire’s one-volume “Manet” (Paris: A. Quantin, 1884), which includes Emile Zola’s “Edouard Manet, étude biographique et critique” (1867) and Charles Cros’s “Le Fleuve”
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 153 mm x 223 mm (6.02 in. x 8.78 in.). Sheet dimensions: 153 mm x 245 mm (6.02 in. x 9.65 in.).
Bibliography: Guérin 33 i?; Moreau-Nelaton 13; Harris 55; “The Prints of Edouard Manet” (Fisher), cat. no. 43 v/vii, p. 80; for information on the portraits see Heinrich Schwarz, “Two Unknown Portraits of Manet,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 53 (April 1959)
Associated People: Created by Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
Accession Number: 1949.D1.1.8

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