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Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Barthélémy Charles, Comte de Dreux-Nancré
Portrait of the Artist's Son as a Drummer Martin Drolling (Bergheim, 1752 - Paris, 1817, aka Drolling the Elder) was a French painter. He was father to Michel Martin Drolling, and to Louise-Adéone Drölling (1797 -1834), also known as Madame Joubert, one of the few successful female painters of the time. Biography Martin Drolling, a native of Oberbergheim, 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. Although faulty in drawing and never above mediocrity, his works were popular during his lifetime, and many of them were engraved and lithographed. He died in Paris in 1827. The Louvre has by him a 'Woman at a window ' and a 'Violin-Player.'
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