Cleveland Museum of Art
A Hussar Officer on Horseback
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815) · 1812
The soldier wears a heavy military headdress called a “busby,” originally worn by Hungarian hussars and adopted by American hussar (light cavalry) regiments during the 1800s.
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