COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.97.34
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
German, 1816-1868
Creator Name-CRT:
Emanuel Leutze
Title:
Washington Crossing the Delaware
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1851
Creation Start Date:
1851
Creation End Date:
1851
Materials and Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
149 x 255 in. (378.5 x 647.7 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
ID Number:
97.34
Credit Line:
Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897
Context:
Leutze's depiction of Washington's attack on the Hessians at Trenton on December 25, 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 Bremen Kunsthalle, 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. Many studies for the painting exist, as do copies by other artists.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.ap97.34.R.tif
