Art, literature & history
Group of People on a Terrace
1797
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite and traces of white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Max: 55.4 × 44 cm (21 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2013.949.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacob Philipp Hackert. Group of People on a Terrace. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Group of People on a Terrace — Jacob Philipp Hackert. 1797.
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite and traces of white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper. Dimensions: Max: 55.4 × 44 cm (21 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
The German Romantic artist Jacob Philipp Hackert was fascinated by Italy, and he became court painter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples. He specialized in landscape painting, particularly scenes of Classical ruins.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.