Louise-Adéone Drölling, also known as Madame Joubert (29 May 1797 – 20 March 1834) was a French painter and draughtswoman. Both her father, Martin Drolling, and her older brother, Michel Martin Drolling, were celebrated artists in their day.[1][2]
Louise-Adéone Drölling | |
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.jpg) Portrait of Adéone by her father (detail), 1812 | |
| Born | 29 May 1797 Paris, France |
| Died | 20 March 1834 (aged 36) Paris, France |
| Other names | Madame Joubert |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Father | Martin Drolling |
| Relatives | Michel Martin Drolling (brother) |
Biography
editLouise-Adéone Drölling was born 29 May 1797. At about age 10, she modeled for her father for the small Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (Musée Magnin, Dijon),[3] and later, at age 15, for the life-sized Portrait of Adéone (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg). Around this time, she was encouraged by her father to begin a career in painting.[4]
In 1819, Louise-Adéone married the architect Jean-Nicolas Pagnierre. She became a widow in 1822 and remarried four years later, in 1826. With her second husband, chief tax officer (octroi) of the city of Paris, Nicholas Roch Joubert (son of politician and former bishop Pierre-Mathieu Joubert), she had two daughters, Adéone Louise Sophie, and Angélique Marie.[2]
In 1827 and 1831[4] Louise-Adéone's paintings were exhibited in the Salon des Amis des Arts. For one of her works, Interior with Young Woman Tracing a Flower, she received a gold medal and the work was displayed at the Gallery of La Duchesse de Berry.
She died in Paris, 20 March 1834.[5]
The list of her belongings after her death (inventaire après décès) was made on 30 April 1836.[6][7][2]
Characteristics
editDrölling was not a prolific artist, as she admitted herself in a letter from 1828; the inventory after her death mentions only a dozen of her works. Having been taught by her father (who had also been the teacher of her brother), she practiced a highly skillful but very traditional art; thus, some of her paintings and drawings have been attributed to either of both men, and vice versa. In addition to the two portraits he painted of her, Martin Drolling used Louise-Adéone's recognizable, brown-haired and blue-eyed features in several of his later paintings.[2] Conversely, no self-portrait of Drölling has as yet been identified.
Gallery
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![Woman artist giving a drawing lesson (Self-portrait), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide[8][9]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Louise_Adeone_Drolling_-_Drawing_Lesson.jpg/97px-Louise_Adeone_Drolling_-_Drawing_Lesson.jpg)
Woman artist giving a drawing lesson (Self-portrait), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide[8][9] -
Interior with Young Woman Tracing a Flower, c. 1820-22, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri -
A Child in a Room, before 1831 -
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Martin Drolling: Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (1807 or slightly before) -
Martin Drolling, Young Woman helping a poor Family, 1814, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen. Louise-Adéone (aged 16–17) as the young woman.
![Woman artist giving a drawing lesson (Self-portrait), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide[8][9]](/wiki/File:Louise_Adeone_Drolling_-_Drawing_Lesson.jpg)
References
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- ^ "Ontdek schilder, kunstenaarsdochter Louise Adéone Drölling". rkd.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d Siffer, Florian (2013). "Récentes découvertes de dessins de Louise-Adéone Drölling (1797–1836) dans les collections du Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins de Strasbourg". Cahiers Alsaciens d'Archéologie d'Art et d'Histoire, Tome Lvi. Cahiers Alsaciens d'Archéologie d'Art et d'Histoire. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Portrait de la fille de l'artiste". French Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ a b Levrat, Laetitia (2010). Martin Drölling (Bergheim 1752-Paris 1817) : un état de la question (PDF). Art et histoire de l’art. pp. 40, 41.
- ^ Louise-Adéone Drölling's death certificate : Archives de Paris, État civil, État civil reconstitué, Actes de l'état civil reconstitué, décès, 20 March 1834, 5Mi1 1251, image 35/51 : "L'an mil huit cent trente quatre le vingt mars est décédée à Paris, deuxième arrondissement, Louise Adeone Drölling, épouse de Nicolas Roch Joubert". Document also available on FamilySearch (registration required).
- ^ Rewald, Sabine (2011). Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-58839-413-2.
- ^ Nécrologe universel du dix-neuvième siècle (1851). Le Nécrologe universel du xixe siècle, par une société de gens de lettres [&c.] sous la direction de E. Saint-Maurice Cabany, Volume 6. E de Saint-Maurice-Cabany. p. 298.
- ^ "Woman artist giving a drawing lesson (Self-portrait)". AGSA - Online Collection. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Bonnet Saint-Georges, Bénédicte (27 December 2021). "Un tableau de Louise-Adéone Drölling pour Adélaïde". La Tribune de l'Art (in French). Retrieved 7 January 2022.