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Toreador cape

20th century

Not on view

Matador Juan Belmonte (1893-1962) was eulogized by the New York Herald Tribune: "In his day, he was the greatest of them all, the idol of a generation, the dark genius of the bull-fighting mystique who became one of the central characters in Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon." Mrs. Vreeland prized the bullfight's excitement and exaggeration governed by formalities.

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Toreador cape, silk, metallic, Spanish

Toreador cape, silk, metallic, Spanish

Toreador cape, silk, metallic, Spanish

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Title: Toreador cape

Date: 20th century

Culture: Spanish

Medium: silk, metallic

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. T. Reed Vreeland, 1961

Accession Number: C.I.61.3.1

Chronology

Iberian Peninsula, 1900 A.D.-present

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