Drummer Boy Attacked by a Cossack
Jean Victor Schnetz French
Formerly attributed to Théodore Gericault French
Not on view
This drawing shows the stylistic influence of Gericault, whom Schnetz befriended in Italy in 1817. Both artists produced high-contrast drawings using white gouache around this time. Although this work was most likely made after the fall of Napoleon, the identification of the attacking horseman as a Cossack—a member of a Slavic military unit—suggests the subject’s association with the French invasion of Russia in 1812.
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