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Compare the carefully shaded face with the quick, bright touches that describe the bullfighter’s decorated jacket.
Cassatt painted this figure in Seville during her travels in Spain in 1872–73, before joining the Impressionist exhibitions. The museum relates its controlled modeling to Velázquez and its livelier handling of costume to Manet. The picture brings her study of older Spanish painting into contact with contemporary French approaches.
Oil on canvas · 110.5 × 93.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism · Realism · Modernism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- After the Bullfight
- Artist
- Mary Cassatt
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 110.5 × 93.4 cm (43 1/2 × 36 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Sterling Morton
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.