Riderless Horse Races
by GÉRICAULT, Théodore, Oil on canvas, 45 x 60 cm
G�ricault painted five studies of this theme for large painting which was never realized. Two versions depicts the subject as a contemporary scene, to other three (one of them in the Louvre) as antique.
In this composition created in Rome, the power of man struggling against beast is expressed through the study of antiquity and the forms of Michelangelo.