Martin Drolling

Martin Drolling studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Michel Martin Drolling is recorded as having studied under Martin Drolling. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and genre. Places of work recorded in the authority are Strasbourg and Paris. Residence is recorded at Paris. Employment is recorded with Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Works named in the authority record are The Little Milk-Girl and Portrait of Adéone. Work by Martin Drolling is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Australia, Cleveland Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum and National Museum in Warsaw.

• Illustration — Portrait of his son Michel Martin Drolling as a drummer boy Martin Drolling, a native of Oberhergheim, Haut-Rhin, 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 of 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.

• Illustration — Portrait of Adéone • Illustration — The little milk-girl • Illustration — Barthélémy Charles, Comte de Dreux-Nancré • Illustration — The messenger or "The Good News", 1806 • Illustration — Laundry • Illustration — A Girl Copying a Drawing Pushkin Museum, Moscow • Illustration — Interior of a kitchen (detail), Louvre, 1815