The Matador Saluting

The Matador Saluting (French - Le Matador saluant ) is an oil-on-canvas painting produced by Édouard Manet between 1866 and 1867. Its precise date is unclear – Charles S. Moffett dates the first definite reference to the work to 1867, at an exhibition devoted to Manet's works at the pavillon de l'Alma.

Étienne Moreau-Nélaton and Adolphe Tabarant agree that Manet's brother Eugène was the model for the work. It was one of the works by Manet which were refused by the Paris Salon of 1866. The prefect allowed the artist to exhibit these works in his studio instead so long as he did not open the doors to the studio too wide. It shows a matador or torero receiving the crowd's applause after killing a bull, though the work's first buyer Théodore Duret instead argued that it shows a matador asking the crowd's permission to kill the bull.

Unlike the fantasy of Miss V Dressed as a Bullfighter, The Matador Saluting was …

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