Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

by Carlos Diaz

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Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

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Carlos Diaz

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Photograph - Photographs

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Washington Crossing the Delaware - Remastered by Carlos Diaz

Emanuel Leutze

Leutze's depiction of Washington's attack on the Hessians at Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776, was a great success in America and in Germany. Leutze began his first version of this subject in 1849. It was damaged in his studio by fire in 1850 and, although restored and acquired by the Kunsthalle Bremen, was again destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942. In 1850, Leutze began this version of the subject, which was placed on exhibition in New York during October of 1851. At this showing Marshall O. Roberts bought the canvas for the then-enormous sum of $10,000. In 1853, M. Knoedler published an engraving of it.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze was a German American history painter best known for his 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

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