The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, October 16, 1777

ca. 1822–32

On view, 2nd floor, American Art before 1900

Against a golden autumnal landscape, British Lieutenant General John Burgoyne hands his sword in surrender to American Major General Horatio Gates, at center. Gates refuses it, according to military custom, and gestures Burgoyne toward the tent to take refreshment. The principal officers of the American army are assembled in the right foreground, while the British troops are crossing the meadows in the background. After this victory, the French government officially recognized the American republic and sent troops and weapons to bolster the American forces at Yorktown, Virginia.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21 1/8 × 30 5/8 × 1 in. (53.7 × 77.8 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line: Trumbull Collection
Accession Number: 1832.7
Geography: Depicted Saratoga, New York, United States
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Trumbull Collection, to 1832; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Arthur S. Lefkowitz, Eyewitness Images from the American Revolution (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2017), 168, ill.

Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 26, 67, 80, 92, 98, 102, 104, no. 36, ill.

Christopher Hibbert, Redcoats and Rebels (Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Military, 2008), ill.

Helen A. Cooper et al., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 87, pl. 30

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

histories (visual works), military history

Subject

camps (temporary settlements) cannons (artillery) flags horses (animals) officers (military officers) soldiers swords

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