A Cavalryman is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, from 1884.

The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

[1] Dragoons were mounted infantry capable of riding into on an engagement on horses before dismounting to engage enemy forces on foot; this important role, coupled with the cost of horses, resulted in dragoons being known as elite-but-expensive troops.

[1] Dragoons became a subject of various works of military art, including the works of the painter Ernest Meissonier, whose style De Neuville directly emulated in the current painting.

As noted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, De Neuville "capitalized on the intense patriotism and dreams of military glory that the French defeat aroused" with his work.