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Leutze's enormous canvas dramatizes George Washington's daring 1776 night river crossing before a surprise attack, ice floes parting around his boat. Historically loose but stirring, it became one of the most reproduced images in American history. It was painted, fittingly, by a German-American hoping to inspire revolution back in Europe.
Washington Crossing the Delaware
- Date1851
- MovementRomanticism
- WhereMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- RegionUnited States