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Portrait of the Artist's Daughter
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
at lower right, in graphite: “[illegible] / pour [illegible]”
Provenance
February 1998: Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, Germany Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980] 1998-2005: Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Martin Drölling (French, 1752–1817)
- Date
- c. 1810
- Medium
- black chalk on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 21.2 x 18.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2019.65
More by Martin Drölling in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011343
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