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After the Bullfight
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)LinkedCulture matchlcp-1a8df4849ac8
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Seville
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 31816
Mary Cassatt chose a quintessentially Spanish subject, executing this composition of a bullfighter, or torero, in full regalia during an extended stay in Seville. Having trained in Philadelphia and Paris, Cassatt ventured to Spain to study the country’s Renaissance and Baroque works and to follow the path of French avant-garde artists like Édouard Manet. Depicting the performer at a relaxed moment, far removed from the spectacle and violence of the ring, Cassatt omitted narrative detail. Instead, with a modernist sensibility, she focused on the male figure in a casual pose, employing vigorous brushwork and rich pigment to describe the bullfighter’s costume and suggest his characteristic bravado.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Sterling Morton
- Provenance
- The artist, 1873; H. Teubner, Philadelphia, by 1878; John Ruderman, Montclair, NJ, dates unknown; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Padawar, NY, until c. 1957; John Cunningham, New York, by September 1959; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, September 1959; Mrs. Sterling Morton (1890-1969), Chicago, October 26, 1959; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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