Portrait of the Artist's Daughter
Martin Drölling (French, 1752–1817)
1805–1815
- Medium
- black chalk on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 21.2 x 18.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- drawing
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, 19th century
About
Martin Drölling was an accomplished portraitist, known for intimate depictions that revealed their sitters’ personalities. This drawing shows his daughter, Louise Adéone (1797–before 1831) wearing a fashionable dress and hat. The young woman meets the artist’s gaze directly and confidently, her features delineated by a combination of smooth lines and soft shading in charcoal.
