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Some 2,400 men crossed in the dark, through sleet and drifting floes.
Leutze composed it on a 21-foot canvas. We turned the canvas into a scene you can move through.
By 8 am they reached Trenton. The flag still moves; everything else holds its pose.
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Emanuel Leutze painted this second version in Düsseldorf in 1850 after the first was damaged by fire. It went on show in New York in October 1851 and sold within weeks for $10,000. It now hangs in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Painting in the public domain. Motion generated from the Met's open-access image.