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The Charging Chasseur or An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging is an oil painting on canvas of about 1812 by the French painter Théodore Géricault portraying a mounted Napoleonic cavalry officer who is 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.
