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Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Washington Crossing the Delaware is an oil painting by the German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Painted in 1851, it shows General George Washington's crossing the Delaware River with the Continental Army in December 1776. This period was during the American Revolutionary War.
The original painting was housed in the Kunsthalle in Bremen, Germany, but was destroyed in World War II. Including the destroyed one, Leutze painted a total of three versions: one is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The other was kept in the White House in Washington, D.C. but has been on display elsewhere in the U.S.

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