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Family Group on a Terrace
Publications
Ralph Edwards, “Conversation Pieces in Search of a Painter,” Apollo 66 (1957), pp. 90, 91, ill. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 59. Aileen Ribeiro, The Dress Worn at Masquerades in England, 1730 to 1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture (New York and London, 1984), ch. 2, fig. 14. Malcolm Warner, in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 t0 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 239–241, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Theodore Heins, Sr. (German, active England, 1697-1756)
- Date
- c. 1740
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 94.6 × 120.6 cm (37 1/2 × 47 1/2 in.); Framed: 105.5 × 130.4 × 8.3 cm (41 1/2 × 51 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Accession no.
- 1951.204
Provenance
Emily Crane Chadbourne, Washington, D.C.; on loan to the Art Institute, 1932–51; given to the Art Institute, 1951.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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