# Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study, U.S. Capitol)

- By: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868)
- Date: 1861
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 33 1/4 x 43 3/8 in. (84.5 x 110.1 cm.)
- Culture: Indians of North America
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Sara Carr Upton
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=14569)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/64079c4f31c42a44a346566d5d2bc4d3.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)