Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (c. 1810): Art, History and Details

Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (c. 1810) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Martin Drölling (French, 1752–1817).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of the Artist's Daughter
• Date: c. 1810
• Creator attribution: Martin Drölling (French, 1752–1817)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: black chalk on tan wove paper
• Dimensions: Sheet: 21.2 x 18.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2019.65

A detail from the museum

Martin Drölling’s daughter, this portrait’s sitter, went on to become an artist herself, painting under the name Madame Joubert.

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

View the collection record

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