Painting and Sculpture
A Charge of Cuirassiers
A Charge of Cuirassiers is an 1823 history painting by the French artist Théodore Géricault. It portrays a battle scene from the Napoleonic Wars as charging French cuirassiers seize a regimental colour from Russian infantry. Battle scenes remained popular in the decades after the fighting ceased in 1815, with Géricault's friend Horace Vernet producing a large number. Today the painting is in Wallace Collection in London, having been purchased by the Marquess of Hertford in 1857 in Paris.
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Alma Thomas.
Bascove.
See also
- ▸Colonna Madonna
- ▸Granite Mountains (eastern San Bernardino County, California)
- ▸Interior of a Mosque
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