Washington Crossing the Delaware

Cultural  

1. A painting from the nineteenth century by a German painter, Emanuel Leutze, showing George Washington and a group of soldiers in a small boat crossing the Delaware River. In this romanticized but inaccurate view, the soldiers are going to launch a surprise attack against the British troops during the American Revolutionary War.

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Example Sentences

He eschews the traditional, romantic image of the Revolutionary War as a saga of set-piece battles and dramatic moments such as Washington crossing the Delaware.

From Washington Post

He drank in the art, found community with the other guards and smiled to himself as museumgoers blew past masterpieces to take a picture of “Washington Crossing the Delaware.”

From Washington Post

And they certainly recall “heroic narratives found in American and European history paintings,” she added, such as Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” which hangs at the Met, and Théodore Géricault’s stunning “The Raft of the Medusa,” which is in the collection of the Louvre.

From New York Times

He stands in front of a bust of George Washington and a rendering of the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emanuel Leutze, one of the most famous images in the world in the mid-1800s.

From Washington Post

McCarthy is fond of pointing to a painting in his office of George Washington crossing the Delaware.

From Los Angeles Times