George Washington at Valley Forge
Henry Merwin Shrady American
Cast by Roman Bronze Works
Not on view
In “George Washington at Valley Forge” the somber commander-in-chief is depicted mounted on his horse, dressed in a Continental uniform, and enveloped in a heavy cloak during the bleak winter of 1777-78, when his troops were bivouacked at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The heroic-size sculpture on a granite base was unveiled at Brooklyn Plaza of the Williamsburg Bridge (now Continental Army Plaza) on September 29, 1906. The Metropolitan’s statuette is a replica of the maquette that was approved for the monument by the Art Commission of the City of New York in 1905.