# Wounded Soldiers Retrating from Russia [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GÉRICAULT, Théodore]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour, 250 x 206 mm ## Commentary Wounded Soldiers Retrating from Russia c. 1814 Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour, 250 x 206 mm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen In spite of his Classical schooling, Géricault broke with traditional themes and forms to set the tone for the developments in French Romanticism. In this picture he took up the theme of a topical historical event. Exhausted almost to the point of death by hunger and cold, these wounded men struggle through a desert of ice. Far from glorifying the soldier's life, Géricault depicted the misery of their extreme situation - an approach in tune with the spirit of his age. ## Related artworks - [A Carabinier with his Horse]() - [A Charge of Cuirassiers]() - [A Madwoman and Compulsive Gambler]() - [A Turk \(Mustapha\)]() - [An Officer of the Chasseurs Commanding a Charge]() - [English Horse in Stable]() - [Grey Horse Called L'Aly]() - [Heroic Landscape with Fishermen]() - [Horse Market: Five Horses at the Stake]() - [Man with Delusions of Military Command]() - [Nymph and Satyr \(Jupiter and Antiope\)]() - [Portrait of a Kleptomaniac]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()