Eliteart Washington Crossing The Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze Oil Painting Reproduction Giclee Wall Art Canvas PrintsFramed Size22x30

The commemorates General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-68) was the German-born, German-educated painter of this American icon. The original was part of the collection at the Kunsthalle in Bremen, Germany, and was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942, during World War II. Leutze painted two more versions, one of which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.