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A man wearing a military uniform and riding a horse gestures in front of a small band of soldiers in this vertical painting. All the men have pale skin and wear navy-blue and flax-yellow uniforms. The central man, George Washington, and the cream-white horse he rides take up most of the composition. The horse has a glossy black mane and tail, and black hooves. The horse stands with its body facing our right in profile, one front leg lifted, but it turns its head to look off to our left with clear brown eyes. There is a scarlet-red blanket under the fawn-brown saddle. Washington also turns…

Washington before Yorktown

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778 - 1860)

1824, reworked 1825 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, Mount Vernon, Virginia, 1944)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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