| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Leutze sent the work to New York in 1851, and within four months more than fifty thousand people had paid to see it.Today, this painting is an icon of American visual culture and is one of the most beloved objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2007, 110 years after its acquisition, Leutze's masterpiece became the focus of the most ambitious conservation and reframing project in the museum'
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