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Collections

Martin Drölling
Painting and Music (Portrait of the Artist's Son)1800

Not on view
Oil painting of a young person leaning on a stone window ledge holding a violin and bow, with sheet music open beside them and a richly patterned textile draped over the sill; a second figure and a landscape painting are visible in the shadowed room behind

Martin Drölling, Painting and Music (Portrait of the Artist's Son), 1800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Collection, Eloise Mabury Knapp, Mr. & Mrs. Will Richeson, Carlotta Mabury, John Jewett Garland, Celia Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Honeyman, Bella Mabury and Mr. and Mrs. George William Davenport, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Martin Drölling
France, 1752-1817
Title
Painting and Music (Portrait of the Artist's Son)
Place Made
France
Date Made
1800
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 18 × 14 3/4 in. (45.72 × 37.47 cm) Frame: 26 1/2 × 23 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (67.31 × 59.69 × 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Collection, Eloise Mabury Knapp, Mr. & Mrs. Will Richeson, Carlotta Mabury, John Jewett Garland, Celia Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Honeyman, Bella Mabury and Mr. and Mrs. George William Davenport
Accession Number
M.81.38
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Hecht, Peter. De Hollandse Fijnschilders: van Gerard Dou tot Adriaen van der Werff. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1989.
  • Bréton, Étienne, and Pascal Zuber. Louis-Léopold Boilly: Le Peintre de la Société Parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe. Vol. 2. Paris: Arthena, 2019.