Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings)
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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.
Washington Crossing the Delaware | |
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Artist | Emanuel Leutze |
Year | 1851 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 378.5 cm × 647.7 cm (149 in × 255 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota |
The paintings commemorate General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River with the Continental Army on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. That action was the first move in a surprise attack and victory against Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton in New Jersey on the morning of December 26.
The original was part of the collection at the Kunsthalle in Bremen, Germany, and was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942, during World War II. Leutze painted two more versions, one of which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The other was in the West Wing reception area of the White House in Washington, D.C., but in March 2015, was purchased and put on display at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, Minnesota. In April 2022 Christie's announced that the smaller painting would be sold at auction the following month, for a pre-sale estimate of $15 million to $20 million.[1] It sold for $43 million.