- As reflected in the title, Géricault's Charging Chasseur is a large-scale portrait featuring an officer in the French Imperial Guard charging away from the viewer.
- American artist Kehinde Wiley reimagined The Charging Chasseur in his 2007 painting Officer of the Hussars.
- The Charging Chasseur by Théodore Géricault is a renowned painting that captures the intensity and vitality of warfare.
- The Charging Chasseur was the first work that Theodore Géricault exhibited.
- The painting’s title later became anonymous – probably to heighten the dismal message Géricault embedded within the image.
- Théodore Géricault’s The Charging Chasseur (Le Chasseur à cheval) is an iconic painting that has captivated art enthusiasts and critics for centuries.
- Theodore Gericault completed The Charging Chasseur in around 1812 and it remains amongst his most famous paintings.
- Officier de chasseurs à cheval de la garde impériale chargeant by Théodore Géricault.
- Théodore Géricault, The Charging Chasseur (1812), Bayonne, musée Bonnat-Helleu.
- By the time he came to paint the final version, Géricault's optimism about the great army's prospects appear to have shrunk to the size of a pea.
- This piece of artwork is currently held in [the Louvre](https://www.louvre.fr/oeuvre-notices/officier-de-chasseurs-cheval-de-la-garde-imperiale-chargeant).
- At the Salon of 1814, Géricault’s Wounded Cuirassier shocked critics with its mournful subject and sombre colours.
- Géricault's first major work, The Charging Chasseur, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1812, revealed the influence of the style of Rubens and an interest in the...
