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The painting, like many works by Manet, addresses the theme of artifice. The scene shown in the painting is fictional, with
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dressed as an espada, a
Spanish bullfighter. Meurent is set in a bullring, with a bull about to attack a picador mounted on a horse in the background. The sword in Meurent's right hand suggests that she is prepared to kill the bull. Meurent is staring directly at the viewer rather than the bull. In
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Meurent is a model posing in a costume.
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