Drolling (1824) - Joseph Lagrange (1763-1836)
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 Martin Drolling ( Oberhergheim, Haut-Rhin, September 19, 1752 – Paris, April 16, 1817) aka. Drolling the Elder, was a French painter. He was father to Michel Martin Drolling, and to Louise-Adéone Drölling, one of the few successful female pai ...

Michel Martin Drolling
Michel Martin Drolling (7 March 1786 – 9 January 1851) was a Neoclassicism, neoclassic French painter noted especially as a History painting, 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''.Grunchec, Philippe (1985). ''The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797–1863''. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. p. 59. . After having worked at the French Academy in Rome, he became known for the ''Death of Abel'', exhibited at the Salon (Paris), 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 ...
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