George Washington stands in a crowded boat pushing through ice on the Delaware on the night of 25–26 December 1776, the crossing that led to victory at Trenton. Emanuel Leutze painted it in Düsseldorf, hoping America's revolution would encourage Europe's reformers after 1848. The first version was destroyed in Bremen in 1942; this full-size replica has been at the Met since 1897.
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The Stars and Stripes held by James Monroe did not exist until 1777. The river behind is modelled on the Rhine, not the Delaware.
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