Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Washington Crossing the Delaware 2

Washington Crossing the Delaware (2nd nomination)

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Original - Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, occurring on December 25, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a planned surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey.

Reason: One of Washingtons most memorable portraits. It has high EV. It was featured on Commons. Also this is the second nomination beacuse i saw someone else tried to nominate a image of this(not this one) and failed but i cant find that nomination.
Articles in which this image appears: Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Delaware River, Battle of Trenton etc..
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Emanuel Leutze

Support as nominator --Spongie555 (talk) 03:26, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This image is iconic to the point of being overused. Greg L (talk) 13:42, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Like the Ben Franklin I don't think this is the actual painting. It's extremely smooth and flat, doesn't look like canvass at all, but I'm wrong I'll scratch this out. --I'ḏ♥One 18:34, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment While I don't know if this is the actual painting or not, I believe it comes from a style where the artist strives to hide the brush stroke and therefore have a result that is smooth and "unpainterly" Cowtowner (talk) 19:02, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I believe the original is also very large. However, does it look slightly blurred to anyone else? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:29, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - I do agree that it looks blurred and you are correct: the original is very large. Cowtowner (talk) 22:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Photo could have been taken better. Nothing against the painting itself. Haljackey (talk) 00:19, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Greg L's point is well taken, but this is a superior image of the painting. I am a little surprised at the criticism of the image quality (for a Commons featured image, no less). A Google image search for Washington Crossing the Delaware turns up other images that are washed out, off balance, poorly cropped, overly dark, and otherwise inferior. This may be an overused image, but this is one of the best pictures of this painting on the net. Tim Pierce (talk) 21:24, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It is pretty good, but it's a sub-quality digital reproduction and we usually have higher standards about these things. For example we dismissed a disappointing version of The Scream, this nomination almost failed until a much better version was uploaded, and just look through the feature paintings. That's why I opposed this and that Ben Franklin one, but I guess if they pass and a better version comes along we can just D&R. --I'ḏ♥One 22:30, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I appreciate your insistence on quality. This image is the finest digital reproduction of Washington Crossing the Delaware that I can find on the net. I would not rule out the possibility that a better and clearer image could some day be obtained, but I do not think that should be a barrier to declaring this one a featured picture. Tim Pierce (talk) 23:56, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - While I have no opinion at this time on this nomination, I would like to note that FPC is very much not for the "best we have at the moment". J Milburn (talk) 00:10, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - It is a better digital reproduction of this painting than anything I have seen. That is enough for me to be comfortable with it as a FP. Tim Pierce (talk) 01:11, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: for overexposure. See the sky and the ice in the background here: [1]. Maedin\^talk 18:12, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]