Highly critical comments directed at Edouard Manet's painting Incident in a Bullfight, which he had entered in the Salon of 1864, prompted him to cut the painting apart...The Dead Toreador in the National Gallery of Art would have made up most of the lower left part of the original composition.

http://www.nga.gov/feature/toreador/intro_1.shtm

This painting can be seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

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