Washington Crossing the Delaware

作品描述

Washington Crossing the Delaware is a 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by the German-American artist Emanuel Leutze depicting General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River with the Continental Army on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. The painting captures Washington's covert crossing the Delaware River that night, which was the first of several moves leading to a surprise attack and victory against Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton in New Jersey on the morning of December 26.