Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze, 1851
Leutze's Met epic — Washington standing in the boat through ice and dawn.
About this work
Emanuel Leutze's painting shows George Washington crossing the Delaware River with the Continental Army on the night of December 25–26, 1776, the covert move that led to the surprise victory over Hessian forces at Trenton the next morning. Leutze grew up in America and returned to Germany as an adult. He conceived the picture during the revolutions of 1848, hoping the American example would encourage Europe's liberal reformers, and used American tourists and art students, among them Worthington Whittredge, as models and assistants. His first version was damaged by fire in the studio, restored, acquired by the Kunsthalle Bremen and destroyed in a British bombing raid in 1942. This is the second, a full-size replica first exhibited in New York in October 1851, where more than 50,000 people came to see it. Marshall O. Roberts bought it for $10,000, and after several owners John Stewart Kennedy gave it to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1897. The canvas is enormous: 378.5 × 647.7 cm (149 × 255 in).
Sources: Wikipedia · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Wikimedia Commons
Print facts
- Native resolution
- 6,004 × 3,847 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 40 × 25 in
- Sizes
- Small (20 × 13 in) · $100 · 296 ppi
Medium (24 × 15 in) · $150 · 250 ppi
Large (36 × 23 in) · $300 · 167 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
FAQ
Where can I buy a framed print of Washington Crossing the Delaware?
Here. Washington Crossing the Delaware is available as a framed print in three sizes: Small (20 × 13 in) for $100, Medium (24 × 15 in) for $150 and Large (36 × 23 in) for $300. Prices include the frame and US shipping; delivery takes 14–21 days, with 30-day returns.
What size works best for Washington Crossing the Delaware?
The file is 6,004 × 3,847 px, so every size is sharp: even Large (36 × 23 in) prints at 167 ppi. Choose Large (36 × 23 in) for a large wall; Small (20 × 13 in) suits a narrower space.
Is it legal to print Washington Crossing the Delaware?
Yes. Washington Crossing the Delaware is in the public domain: its copyright, if it ever had one, expired long ago. In the United States a faithful photograph of a public-domain painting does not create a new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel, 1999), so the image can be printed and sold freely.
