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Emanuel Leutze: Mrs. Schuyler Burning Her Wheat Fields on the Approach of the British  wikidata:Q20881036 reasonator:Q20881036
Artist
Emanuel Leutze  (1816–1868)  wikidata:Q452321
 
Emanuel Leutze
Alternative names
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Description American-German painter, artist and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 24 May 1816 Edit this at Wikidata 18 July 1868 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Gmünd, (now Schwäbisch Gmünd) Washington DC
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Munich; Philadelphia Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q452321
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Mrs. Schuyler Burning Her Wheat Fields on the Approach of the British
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler (1734-1803), wife of General Philip Schuyler, is shown setting fire to her wheat fields to keep them from the enemy, whose imminent arrival is announced by a messenger. It is unknown whether she did burn her wheat fields, but the British did burn her house down during the Battle of Saratoga.
Depicted people Catherine Van Rensselaer Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1852
date QS:P571,+1852-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 32 in (81.2 cm); width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,32U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,40U218593
institution QS:P195,Q1641836
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M.76.91 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line Bicentennial gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Schaaf, Mr. and Mrs. William D. Witherspoon, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Shoemaker, and Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr. (M.76.91)
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