Bullfight (Manet)

Bullfight (French - "Combat de taureau ") is an 1865-1866 painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It was produced after the artist's trip to Spain in 1865 and forms part of his Spanish period (1862-1867).
Admired and backed by Charles Baudelaire and Émile Zola, the work was so strongly attacked by other art critics that Manet kept it in is studio until 1872, when the frères Goncourt praised it.