Martin Drolling
Martin Drolling (Oberhergheim, September 19, 1752 – Paris, April 16, 1817, aka Drolling the Elder) was a French painter. He was father to Michel Martin Drolling, and to Louise-Adéone Drölling, one of the few successful female painters of the time.
Biography[]
Martin Drolling, a native of Oberhergheim, near Colmar, was born in 1752. He received his first lessons in art from an obscure painter of Schlestadt, but afterwards went to Paris and entered the École des Beaux-Arts. He gained momentary celebrity from his 'Interior of a Kitchen,' painted in 1815, exhibited at the Salon of 1817, and now in the Louvre. He usually painted interiors and familiar subjects of general interest. His works were popular during his lifetime, and many were engraved and lithographed. He died in Paris in 1817. The Louvre has paintings a 'Woman at a window' and a 'Violin-Player' by Drolling.
Gallery[]
The little milk-girl
Barthélémy Charles, Comte de Dreux-Nancré
The messenger or "The Good News", 1806
Laundry
A Girl Copying a Drawing
Pushkin Museum, MoscowInterior of a kitchen (detail), Louvre, 1815
References[]
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Drolling, Martin". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 19th-century French painters
- People from Colmar
- 1752 births
- 1817 deaths
- Painters from Alsace