The Charging Chasseur

The Charging Chasseur

Infobox Painting|

title=The Charging Chasseur
artist=Théodore Géricault
year=circa 1812
type=Oil on canvas
height=349
width=266
city=Paris
museum=Louvre

The Charging Chasseur is an oil painting on canvas by the French painter Théodore Géricault, and portrays Napoleon's cavalry officer on a horse, ready to attack. The painting represents French romanticism and has motif similar to Jacques Louis David's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps", but non-classical characteristics of the picture include its dramatic diagonal arrangement and vigorous paint handling. In "The Charging Chasseur", the horse appears to be rearing away from an unseen attacker.

References

* Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate. Nineteenth Century European Art. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ: 2006.


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