Martin Drolling
{{Short description|French painter (1752–1817)}}
Image:Martin Drolling.jpg, c. 1800]]
Martin Drolling (Oberhergheim, Haut-Rhin, 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
File:Drolling, Michel Martin - Portrait of the Artist's Son as a Drummer.jpg 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 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.
Works
The Louvre has paintings a Woman at a window and a Violin-Player by Drolling.
He made use of mummy brown possibly derived from the hearts of French kings.{{cite book |last=Pringle |first=Heather |title=The Mummy Congress |publisher=Fourth Estate |publication-place=London |date=2002 |isbn=978-1-84115-112-0 |page=203}}
Gallery
Martin Drolling le Vieux - Portrait of young Adeone (1812).jpg|Portrait of Adéone
File:The little milk-girl - Martin Drolling.jpg|The little milk-girl
File:Martin Drolling - Barthélémy Charles, Comte de Dreux-Nancré - WGA6676.jpg|Barthélémy Charles, Comte de Dreux-Nancré
File:Martin Drolling - The Messenger or "The Good News" - WGA06680.jpg|The messenger or "The Good News", 1806
File:Martin Drolling Laundry.jpg|Laundry
File:'A Girl Copying a Drawing' by Martin Drolling, Pushkin Museum.JPG|A Girl Copying a Drawing
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
File:Martin Drolling - Interior of a Kitchen (detail) - WGA6679.jpg|Interior of a kitchen (detail), Louvre, 1815
References
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Category:18th-century French painters
Category:19th-century French painters