Master Paintings Part II

Johann Julius Heinsius

Portraits of Angélique Adélaide Désirée Péan de Saint-Gilles (1796 - 1848) and a young boy of the Péan de Saint-Gilles family

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January 28, 03:40 PM GMT

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Johann Julius Heinsius

Hildburghausen 1740 - 1812 Orléans

Portraits of Angélique Adélaide Désirée Péan de Saint-Gilles (1796 - 1848) and a young boy of the Péan de Saint-Gilles family

each signed and dated upper left: heinsius. pinxit 1808

oil on canvas, a pair

each canvas: 21⅝ by 18⅛ in.; 55 by 46 cm.

each framed: 25¼ by 22 in.; 64.1 by 55.8 cm.

Heinsius painted members of the Péan de Saint-Gilles family on multiple occasions. While the young girl here appears the correct age for Angélique Adélaide in 1808, when she was 11 or 12, her brothers Ange-Louis and Armand Louis Henri were born in 1790 and 1791, respectively, making the boy here too young to be either of them.

Johann Julius Heinsius came from a family of artists: his father Johann Christian Heintz (1706 - 1752) and his brother Johann Ernst Heinsius (1731 - 1794) were both painters. Johann Julius became painter to Louis XV's daughters and was forced to leave France for a short period at the beginning of the Revolution, after which he returned and settled in Orléans.