{{Short description|French painter (1752–1817)}} {{Use British English|date=March 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2026}} [[Image:Martin Drolling.jpg|thumb|Portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly, c. 1800]] '''Martin Drolling''', or '''Drolling the Elder''' (Oberhergheim, 19 September 1752 – Paris, 16 April 1817), 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|thumb|right|upright|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.
==Works== 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.<ref name=Pringle203>{{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}}</ref>
==Gallery== <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''<br>Pushkin Museum, Moscow File:Martin Drolling - Interior of a Kitchen (detail) - WGA6679.jpg|''Interior of a kitchen'' (detail), Louvre, 1815 </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}} {{commons category|Martin Drolling}} * {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Drolling, Martin |volume=1}}
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