Man in Cap and Coat
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 23.81 × 14.61 cm (9 3/8 × 5 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.292
Art Historical Context
**Man in Cap and Coat** is a delicate graphite drawing on wove paper by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, created in 1852. Measuring just 9 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches, this intimate study captures a figure in everyday attire—a cap and coat—rendered with precise, economical lines. Leutze, a German-American painter renowned for his grand historical canvases like *Washington Crossing the Delaware* (1851), often turned to such sketches as preparatory work, honing his observation of light, texture, and form before scaling up to monumental scenes of American heroism. Graphite on wove paper was a favored medium for ...
About the Artist
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
American, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1816–1868 Washington, D.C.