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The Charging Chasseur

Painting by Théodore Géricault

Summary

Painting by Théodore Géricault

Field	Value
image_file	GericaultHorseman.jpg
image_size	300px
title	The Charging Chasseur
artist	Théodore Géricault
year	circa 1812
medium	Oil on canvas
height_metric	349
width_metric	266
metric_unit	cm
imperial_unit	in
museum	Musée du Louvre
city	Paris

The Charging Chasseur, or An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging, is an oil painting on canvas executed ca. 1812 by the French painter Théodore Géricault, portraying a mounted Napoleonic cavalry officer who is ready to attack. It appeared at both the Salon of 1812 and Salon of 1814. It is now displayed in the Louvre, in Paris (Room 700, Denon wing, Level 1).

History and description

The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work and it is an example of his attempt to condense both movement and structure in his art. It 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 turning figure on a rearing horse is derived from the large early Rubens Saint George (Museo del Prado, 1605–1607), though there the view is from the side.

Géricault would continue to move away from classicism, as exemplified in his later masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa (1818–19).

Cultural references

American artist Kehinde Wiley reimagined The Charging Chasseur in his 2007 painting Officer of the Hussars. In Officer of the Hussars, a young Black man dressed in a sleeveless shirt, jeans, and Timberland boots sits atop the horse.

References

Sources

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

References

(1992). "Corso di pittura". De Agostini.
"''Kehinde Wiley, Officer of the Hussars, 2007''". Detroit Institute of Arts.

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