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The Charging Chasseur

painting by Géricault

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  • Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
    In Théodore Géricault

    …by his earliest major work, The Charging Chasseur (1812), which depicts an officer astride a rearing horse on a smoky battlefield, Géricault was drawn to the colourist style of the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens and to the use of contemporary subject matter in the manner of an older colleague,…

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