Famous work · not an exact-location map point
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
An idealised composite painted in Düsseldorf; the geocoded target is a lake in Bolivia — a data error.
- Date
- 1851-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Sources
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — collection record for Emanuel Leutze, ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’, accession 97.34; 1851, oil on canvas, 378 × 648 cm; gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897. This is Leutze’s second full-size version; the first (1850) was destroyed in a 1942 bombing raid on the Kunsthalle Bremen (metmuseum.org)
- Barbara S. Groseclose, ‘Emanuel Leutze, 1816–1868: Freedom is the Only King’ (Smithsonian, 1975); Met, ‘American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School’ literature