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Drolling
Drolling is an archaic term for the act of playing the fool. It is also a surname. People with surname Drolling * Michel Martin Drolling (1789–1851), French painter * Martin Drolling (1752–1817), French painter, father of Michel {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Martin Drolling
Michel Martin Drolling (7 March 1786 – 9 January 1851) was a neoclassic French painter, painter of history and portraitist. Biography He was born in Paris. There, he began painting under the supervision of his father, the painter Martin Drolling. After 1806, he studied with Jacques-Louis David. He won the Prix de Rome in 1810 for ''The Wrath of Achilles''. After having worked at the French Academy in Rome, he became known for the ''Death of Abel'', exhibited at the Salon of 1817. Consequently, he received many orders and produced, notably, ''The Lord Descends to Earth to Establish his Empire and Spread his Good Deeds'' for the ceiling of the room of Illustrious Men at the Louvre, ''The States-General of Tours'' in 1836 and ''The Convention of Alexandria'' in 1837, both for the museum of history in the Palace of Versailles and ''Jesus Among the Doctors'' for the Church of Our-Lady-of-Loretto in Paris in 1840. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |