The Dead Toreador
probably 1864
Artist, French, 1832 - 1883


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 90
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1942.9.40
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
From the artist in 1872 to (Durand-Ruel, Paris); sold 1874 to Jean-Baptiste Faure [1830-1914], Paris; sold 1892 back to (Durand-Ruel, Paris); sold to (Cottier & Co., New York); sold 1894 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1864
Salon of 1864, Paris, no. 1282
1865
Galerie Martinet, Paris, February 1865, no. 2.
1867
Tableaux de Edouard Manet, Avenue de l'Alma, Paris, 1867, no. 5 as L'Homme mort.
1868
Exposition maritime internationale, Le Havre, 1868
1869
Exposition de la Société des Amis des Arts de Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 1869.
1884
Exposition Manet, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1884, no. 24
1889
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, no. 488
1893
World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893, no. 3057.
1932
Exposition Manet, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1932, no. 19
1950
Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 69, repro.
1966
Edouard Manet, 1832-1883, Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1966-1967, no. 59, repro. (Philadelphia only)
1982
Manet and Modern Paris, National Gallery of Art, 1982-1983, no. 77, repro.
1983
Manet, Grand Palais, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1983, no. 73
1985
Manet, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1985, no. 61, repro.
1986
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986, no. 12, repro.
1987
Triumph und Tod des Helden, Wallraf-Richartz-Museums, Cologne; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 1987-1988, no. 45, repro.
1989
Manet, Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, 1989, no. 11, repro.
1992
Edouard Manet: The Execution of Maximilian, National Gallery, London, 1992, no. 26, fig. 31.
Edouard Manet: Augenblicke der Geschichte, Städtischen Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany, 1992-1993, no. 4, repro.
1999
Manet's 'The Dead Toreador' and 'The Bullfight': Fragments of a Lost Salon Painting Reunited, The Frick Collection, New York, 1999, pl. 1.
2001
Manet/Velázquez, La manière espagnole au XIXe siècle [Manet/Velázquez, The French Taste for Spanish Painting], Musée d'Orsay, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002-2003, no. 84, fig. 104 (Paris cat.), no. 141, fig. 9.49 (New York cat.).
2003
Manet en el Prado, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2003-2004, no. 60, repro.
2006
Manet and the Execution of Maximilian, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006-2007, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 15.
2010
Manet et le Paris moderne, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, 2010, no. I-7, repro.
Loan for display with permanent collection, Worcester Art Museum, 2010-2011.
2011
Manet, inventeur du Moderne [Manet: The Man Who Invented Modernity], Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2011, no. 89, figs. 19 and 139.
2014
Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh - aus aller Welt zu Gast, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2014-2015, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
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1864
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1867
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1873
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1889
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1897
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1910
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1913
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1915
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1919
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1922
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1923
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1925
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1926
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1930
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1932
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1933
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1935
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1936
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1938
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1939
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1940
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1941
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1942
The Sunday Star, Washington (6 September 1942): 3, repro.
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1946
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1947
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1948
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1951
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1952
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1953
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1954
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1955
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1956
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1958
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1959
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1960
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1963
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1965
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1966
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1967
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1968
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1969
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1970
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1971
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1972
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1973
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1974
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1975
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1976
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1977
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1978
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1980
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1981
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1982
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1983
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1984
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1985
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1991
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Wilson-Bareau, Juliet, ed. Manet by Himself: Paintings, Pastels, Prints & Drawings. London, 1991: no. 72, repro.
1992
Stevenson, Lesley. Manet. New York, 1992: 66-67, repro.
Carr-Gomm, Sarah. Manet. London, 1992: 68, repro.
Wilson-Bareau, Juliet. Manet, The Execution of Maximilian: Painting, Politics and Censorship. London, 1992: 41-44, repro.
1993
Perutz, Vivien. Edouard Manet. London and Toronto, 1993: repro. 75.
1994
Lemaire, Gerard-Georges. Manet. Milan, 1994: 34, repro.
Rubin, James H. Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets. Cambridge, 1994: repro. no. 46
1996
Körner, Hans. Edouard Manet: Dandy, Flaneur, Maler. Munich, 1996: 85, 88, 228, color fig. 68.
1997
Paris-Bruxelles; Bruxelles-Paris. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; musée des Beaux-Arts, Gand, 1997:10
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1998
Galligan, Gregory. "The Self Pictured: Manet, the Mirror, and the Occupation of Realist Painting." Art Bulletin 80, no. 1 (March 1993): 160-161, repro.
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1999
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2008
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2013
Pludermacher, Isolde. "La Sociéte des amis des arts." In Le Cercle de l'art moderne. Exh. cat. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2013: 33, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: Manet
Wikidata ID
Q3203711