The Charging Chasseur  

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The Charging Chasseur is an oil painting on canvas of about 1812 by the French painter Théodore Géricault, portraying Napoleon's cavalry officer on a horse, ready to attack. The painting represents French romanticism and has a 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. The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work. Géricault would continue to move away from classicism, as exemplified in his masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa (1818–19).




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