Martin Drolling

File:Martin Drolling - Interior of a Kitchen (detail) - WGA6679.jpg

Interior of a kitchen (detail), Louvre, 1815

Martin Drolling (Oberhergheim, 19 September 1752 – Paris, 16 April 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

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Portrait of his son Michel Martin Drolling as a drummer boy

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 a momentary celebrity by 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 of them were engraved and lithographed. He died in Paris in 1817. The Louvre has by him a 'Woman at a window ' and a 'Violin-Player.'

Gallery

• The little milk-girl - Martin Drolling.jpg

  The little milk-girl

• Martin Drolling - Barthélémy Charles, Comte de Dreux-Nancré - WGA6676.jpg

  Barthélémy Charles, Comte de Dreux-Nancré

• Martin Drolling - The Messenger or "The Good News" - WGA06680.jpg

  The messenger or "The Good News", 1806

• Martin Drolling Laundry.jpg

  Laundry

• 'A Girl Copying a Drawing' by Martin Drolling, Pushkin Museum.JPG

  A Girl Copying a Drawing
  Pushkin Museum, Moscow

References

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