Portrait of Louis-Eugène d’Etchegoyen, Cavalry Officer
騎兵隊将校ルイ＝ウジェーヌ・デチュゴワヤン
Antoine-Jean Gros · 1810 · Oil
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A portrait painted in 1810 by Gros, painter to Napoleon, of Louis-Eugène d'Etchegoyen, an officer of the French cavalry. This large oil painting, 260.0 x 190.0 cm, is owned by the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.
- Artist
- Antoine-Jean Gros
- Date
- 1810
- Medium / format
- Oil
About this work
A young man in a shako with a white plume and a uniform with rows of silver braid across the chest stands beside a gray horse, holding its bridle. Behind him is a sky of spreading clouds like dusk. The canvas is large, measuring 260.0 x 190.0 cm.
Louis-Eugène d'Etchegoyen, the sitter, was an officer in the French cavalry and a guard of Joseph, Napoleon's eldest brother. In the Napoleonic era many war paintings and portraits depicting the emperor were made, and portraits of officers of Napoleon's army such as this also became a new subject of painting in that turbulent period.
Gros entered David's studio at 14, and was a painter who won recognition for his many portraits and war paintings of Napoleon, with a Romantic tendency.
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Frequently asked questions
- Who painted Portrait of Louis-Eugène d’Etchegoyen, Cavalry Officer, and when?
- Portrait of Louis-Eugène d’Etchegoyen, Cavalry Officer is by Antoine-Jean Gros, made in 1810. Medium: Oil.
- Where can I see Portrait of Louis-Eugène d’Etchegoyen, Cavalry Officer?
- It is held by Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. Exhibitions change, so check each museum's information before you visit.
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