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She looked especially to Renaissance and Baroque art of the 15th to 17th centuries and to the avant-garde explorations of her French contemporaries for inspiration. Cassatt harmonized these various elements in <em>After the Bullfight<\/em>, executed in Seville: The figure\u2019s controlled, tonal modeling recalls that of Spanish Baroque painter Diego Vel\u00e1zquez, and the dynamic flourishes of rich pigment describing the bullfighter\u2019s regalia evoke the modernist techniques of Frenchman \u00c9douard Manet.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Mary Cassatt chose a quintessentially Spanish subject, executing this composition of a bullfighter, or <em>torero<\/em>, in full regalia during an extended stay in Seville. Having trained in Philadelphia and Paris, Cassatt ventured to Spain to study the country\u2019s Renaissance and Baroque works and to follow the path of French avant-garde artists like \u00c9douard Manet.","dimensions":"110.5 \u00d7 93.4 cm (43 1\/2 \u00d7 36 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":93,"height":110,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed recto, bottom-left, in paint: \"M.S.C. \/ Seville \/ 1873\".","credit_line":"Bequest of Mrs. Sterling Morton","catalogue_display":"<p>Breeskin 23<\/p>","publication_history":"Frederick A. Sweet, \"Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt in the Collection of The Art Institute,\" <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies<\/em> 2 (1967): 33\u201349, fig. 1 (ill.), as <em>Toreador<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4108780\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4108780<\/a>.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 19.","exhibition_history":"Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, <em>49th Annual Exhibition<\/em>, Apr. 22\u2013June 2, 1878, no. 192, as <em>Spanish Matador<\/em>.\n\nNew York, Waldorf\u2013Astoria Hotel, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, <em>Sixty\u2013Eight Great Paintings<\/em>, Jan. 17, 1957, no. 9, no cat.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <em>Treasures of Chicago Collectors<\/em>, Apr. 15\u2013May 7, 1961.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <em>Miss Mary Cassatt<\/em>, July 1\u2013Sept. 5, 1966, no cat, as <em>Toreador<\/em>.\n\nWashington DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Mary Cassatt 1844\u20131926<\/em>, Sept. 27\u2013Nov. 7, 1970, no. 2, as <em>Toreador<\/em>, ill.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <em>Art at The Time of the Centennial<\/em>, June 19\u2013Aug. 8, 1976, no cat., as <em>Torero<\/em>.\n\nAlbi, France, Musee Toulouse\u2013Lautrec, <em>Tresors Impressionistes du Musee de Chicago<\/em>, June 27\u2013Aug. 31, 1980, no. 42 (ill.).\n\nWilliamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, <em>A Selection of Six: American Paintings from the Clark Collection<\/em>, Nov. 17, 1990\u2013Jan. 12, 1991.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <em>Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman<\/em>, Oct. 10, 1998\u2013Jan. 10, 1999; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, and Washington, DC, National Gallery, cat. 6.\n\nNorfolk, VA, Chrysler Museum of Art, <em>Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820\u20131920<\/em>, Feb. 12\u2013May 16, 2021; Milwaukee Art Museum, June 11\u2013Oct. 3, 2021, cat. 77 (ill.).","provenance_text":"The artist, 1873; H. 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