George Washington at Princeton
c. 1779
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 131 × 121.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109016
Because Peale served under General Washington and befriended him during the Revolutionary War, he was an ideal candidate to commemorate Washington's important early victory at Princeton, NJ. Here, in the quiet aftermath of battle, the general is accompanied by his horse and a groomsman, identified by some scholars as William Lee, a mixed-race enslaved man Washington forced to work as his personal assistant. Also present is a line of captured British redcoat soldiers that animates the background at left. Peale produced several versions of this composition amid a rally of enthusiasm for the Ame…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Membership Income Fund, 1917.946
Registry history
- c. 1779 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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