The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Emanuel Leutze
Washington Crossing the Delaware
1851
A verified collection highlight at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Emanuel Leutze, 1851. Oil on canvas.
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Emanuel Leutze
b. 1816, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany · Based in Washington, DC, USA (d. 1868)
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (under Carl Friedrich Lessing)
- History Painting
- Portraiture
- Oil on Canvas
Emanuel Leutze was a German-American history painter of the Düsseldorf school, renowned for his monumental masterwork Washington Crossing the Delaware and allegorical murals celebrating American democratic mythology.
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