Washington Crossing the Delaware — Emanuel Leutze
Washington Crossing the Delaware — Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Leutze, 1851. Leutze, 1851. Painted in Germany, seventy-five years after the night it shows, and inaccurate in almost every detail — which has never once stopped it working.
What arrives
- Printed on canvas and set in a wooden frame — not a poster, not paper behind glass.
- Made to order after you buy it, then shipped worldwide. Nothing sits in a warehouse fading.
- Three sizes, from a piece that suits a hallway to one that takes a wall.
About the image
- Reproduced from the museum's own high-resolution scan of the original painting — not a photograph of a poster.
- Original held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897
- Public domain. Free to reproduce, which is the only reason a canvas like this can cost what it does.
Good to know
Screens are backlit and canvas is not. Colours read slightly deeper and softer on the wall than they do here — that is true of every print ever sold, and it is usually an improvement. Sizes are the framed dimensions. This painting sits at an unusual proportion — wider than it is tall by an awkward margin — so roughly 13% is trimmed from the long edge to meet the frame. Nothing central is lost.
Finish the wall
Four paintings of people in water that does not care about them. They share the same proportions, so they take the same frame size and hang in a clean row.
