Washington Crossing the Delaware is the title of three 1851 oil on canvas paintings by the German American artist Emanuel Leutze, depicting General George Washington leading the Continental Army across the Delaware River on the night of December 25 to 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. The crossing was the first move in a surprise attack that won the Continental Army victory over Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton the following morning. The best known of the three versions hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and has become one of the most reproduced images in American history painting.
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Year Created LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 1 Connections
In Form
History painting by Emanuel Leutze.
In Movement
Leutze's 1851 history painting is a landmark of German and American Romanticism.
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Washington Crossing the Delaware is the title of three 1851 oil-on-canvas paintings by the German-American artist Emanuel Leutze depicting General Washington's crossing of the Delaware River with the Continental Army on the night of December 25-26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War.
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Today, it is on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Washington Crossing the Delaware is the title of three 1851 oil on canvas paintings by the German American artist Emanuel Leutze, depicting General George Washington leading the Continental Army across the Delaware River on the night of December 25 to 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War.
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