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The Soldier's Farewell (from McGuire Scrapbook)
1859 · Ink and graphite on thin off-white laid letterpress paper
9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (25.1 x 19.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Emanuel Leutze
American, 1816–1868
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Romanticism
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American Battle Painting 1776�1918
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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Emanuel Leutze was a German-American painter known for monumental historical and allegorical compositions executed in oil on canvas. Born in Württemberg and trained in Düsseldorf, he emigrated to the United States in 1859, where he became a prominent figure painter and muralist. His dramatic scenes of American history and nationalist themes defined mid-19th-century academic painting in the United States. He worked at a heroic scale, often depicting pivotal moments with theatrical intensity and meticulous historical detail.
Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 40% · Updated 17d ago
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