Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
A charge, named as such
The title states an action: a charge out of a fortress. That is the most specific job description a horse is given anywhere in this catalogue. A charge is a single-use event. The animal is spent, the formation is committed, and there is no returning to the starting position. Pictures built on one are organised around forward motion and around the moment before contact.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1825 and the location is the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. The dimensions are not recorded. The record gives Neoclassicism as the style term, German as the nationality, and brown as the measured colour family of the image. Mountain and seascape headings accompany Animal Art > Horse.
A heading that is not a claim
The record also carries Cultural Heritage > Mythology, a heading that sits on 90 of the 636 works here. It is a filing decision inherited from the source, not a statement about what happened at the place in the title. This site reports the heading and builds no argument on it. What the episode consisted of is not in this catalogue.
Sources
3 references- Krafft, Johann Peter — Getty ULAN
Austrian painter, 1780-1856
- Johann Peter Krafft — Wikipedia
Johann Peter Krafft (15 September 1780 – 28 October 1856) was a German-born Austrian painter, who specialized in portraits, historical works, and genre scenes. == Early life and education == He was born in Hanau. His father was an enamel pa
- Zrínyi's Charge from the Fortress of Szigetvár — Wikidata
description: painting by Krafft, Peter; inception: 1825; dimensions: 455 × 645 cm; collection: Hungarian National Gallery
