The Matador Saluting

Le Matador saluant

The Matador Saluting

Édouard Manet · 1866

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

About this painting

Rejected by the 1866 Salon, this bullfighter (modeled by Manet's brother Eugène) was later championed by Mary Cassatt, who urged collector Louisine Havemeyer to buy it.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

171 × 113 cm (67.3 × 44.5 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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