Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Knight of Sayn and the Gnomes, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

2 comments:

  1. The same guy who painted Washington crossing the Delaware?

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  2. The very same, apparently. I'm trying to track down the whole story behind the painting; apparently a knight is given an impossible message to deliver and some friendly dwarfs build a road so he can. It may have been fairly well known once upon a time to have such work dedicated to depicting it.

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