Edouard Manet
The dead toreador
186475.9 x 153.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: Manet
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 647
Literature
Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velazquez, New York, New Haven, 2003, fig. 9.49
Ann Dumas (ed.), Inspiring Impressionism, Denver-New Haven, 2007, fig. 51
Provenance
from the artist in 1872 to Durand-Ruel
with Durarnd-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
Other works by Edouard Manet
Portrait of a lady
c. 1879
c. 1879
Tarring the Boat
1873
1873
Ball at the opera
1873
1873
Madame Michel-Lévy
1882
1882
Still life with melon and peaches
c. 1866
c. 1866