Washington Crossing the Deleware (Homages #263)
Homages to Washington Crossing the Deleware in chronological order. But first, the original... but um... which original?
Sometimes Wikipedia is a wonderful thing. Here's the bare bones of what you can read in the Wikipedia article:
Washington Crossing the Deleware was painted by Emanuel Leutze in 1850, but it was damaged in a fire in his studio, and then restored. On September 5th, 1942, it was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid.
He started a second version in 1850, that was first exibited in October, 1851. It eventually found a home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was vandalized in January, 2002, but no major damage was done to it.
A third, smaller scale version hung in the White House from 1979-2014, but it doesn't say when it was painted. It now resides in the Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
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The list below is in chronological order.
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