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Portrait of the Artist's Daughter
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About this 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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of the Artist's Daughter, c. 1810. Martin Drölling (French, 1752–1817). Black chalk on tan wove paper; sheet: 21.2 x 18.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2019.65
