Manet Cut His Own Painting Apart

Two paintings survive from a larger work their own artist cut apart. CHAPTERS 0:00 An Apparently Complete Painting 0:45 The Picture Shown at the Salon 1:13 The Other Surviving Fragment 1:50 What Cutting Changed 2:44 Spain Before and After the Painting 3:25 The Bull That Was Added Later 3:52 Reunited Without Recovering the Original 4:30 A Work That Began as a Fragment SOURCES NGA: The Dead Toreador, 1942.9.40 https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1179-dead-toreador Frick: 1999 reunion and factual limits on motive https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/past/1999/manets-dead-toreador-and-bullfight-fragments-lost-salon-painting-reunited Met journal: Manet’s Espada and Marcantonio https://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/Manets_Espada_and_Marcantonio_The_Metropolitan_Museum_Journal_v_2_1969.pdf Art Institute: Manet, Bullfight catalogue https://publications.artic.edu/manet/api/epub/140019/140035/print_view Frick collection text supplied to Google Arts and Culture: The Bullfight https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-bullfight-%C3%89douard-manet/CgEHweS9LM3bhA?hl=en Met: Edouard Manet 1832–1883 https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/edouard-manet-1832-1883 IMAGE CREDITS Édouard Manet, The Dead Toreador, probably 1864, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection, 1942.9.40. Open Access, CC0. Edouard Manet, The Bullfight, 1864–65. The Frick Collection, Henry Clay Frick Bequest, 1914.1.86. Reproduction via Wikimedia Commons, PDM1.0/PD-Art. Original script and explanatory guides by The Art Detail. Authentic registered reproductions; guides are labelled. Licensed synthetic narration: Andrew Dragon HD Latest. The Art Detail · Small details. Remarkable stories.