This painting shows a wintry landscape from a slightly elevated point of view. Rolling hills extend in the background, with small houses, snowy tress, and distant mountains visible. Closer to us, people are gathered outside of a yellow cabin. Several of them appear to be soldiers wearing blue uniforms and tricorn hats, holding tall guns. One person on horseback holds an American flag. In the center, a man sits on a white horse, wearing a blue-and-gold uniform under a cloak. Two small fires create billows of gray smoke. More people on horseback make their way across a path through the snowy…
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Washington at Valley Forge

American 19th Century

mid 19th century

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.9 x 101.5 cm (29 7/8 x 39 15/16 in.) ; framed: 88.9 x 114.9 x 3.8 cm (35 x 45 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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