Louise-Adéone Drölling


Louise-Adéone Drölling, also known as Madame Joubert was a French painter and draughtswoman. Both her father, Martin Drolling, and her older brother, Michel Martin Drolling, were celebrated artists in their day.

Biography

Louise-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, and later, at about age 15, for the life-sized Portrait of Adéone. Around this time, she was encouraged by her father to begin a career in painting.
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 of the city of Paris, Nicholas Roch Joubert, she had two daughters, Adéone Louise Sophie, and Angélique Marie.
In 1827 and 1831 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. Her date of death was for a long time uncertain and thought to be either 1831, or 1834; but as it turned out, the list of her belongings after her death was made on 30 April 1836, meaning that she had died shortly before that date.

Characteristics

Drölling was not a prolific artist, as she admitted herself in a letter from 1828; the inventory after her death mentions only a dozen of works. Having been taught by her father, 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. Conversely, no self-portrait of Drölling has as yet been identified.

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