Louise-Adéone Drölling

Date of birth
1797
Place of birth
Paris
Date of death
c.1836
Place of death
Paris
Nationality
France
Biography

BIOGRAPHY


Born in Paris in 1797, Louise-Adéone Drölling showed artistic aptitude from a young age and was trained as a painter and draughtsperson by the age of 13.  Drölling began her career beside her father Martin and her older brother Michel-Martin. The influence of her father, who was a genre painter, led her to be interested in depicting interior scenes as illustrations of daily life.


Drölling was not a prolific artist but was highly regarded in her lifetime – in 1827 and 1831 her work was exhibited in the Salon des Amis des Arts and she received a gold medal for the work Interior with young woman tracing a flower (now in the Saint Louis Art Museum). Drölling’s date of death is unknown but she died before 30 April 1836 as this was the date of her inventaire apres deces (inventory after death). Only a small number of works were listed at the time of her death and in some cases her works have been misattributed to her father or brother.


Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art Pre-1980