MARTIN DRÖLLING | A young woman setting a bird free from a cage at an open window; and A young woman with a guitar seated at an open window

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December 5, 12:50 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection

MARTIN DRÖLLING

Oberbergheim, near Colmar 1752 - 1817 Paris

A young woman setting a bird free from a cage at an open window; and A young woman with a guitar seated at an open window

the former signed lower left: Drolling f;

the latter signed and dated lower left: Drölling. f/ 1795

a pair, both oil on canvas

each: 45.7 x 37.5 cm.; 18 x 14¾ in.

(2)

With Newhouse Galleries, New York;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 19 May 1995, lot 107, for $85,000.

B***, Critique sur les tableaux exposé au Salon, l'an quatrième, Paris 1795, p. 5;

J.H. de Laser, Examen consis des plus beaux ouvrages exposés au Salon du Louvre de cette année 1795, Paris 1795, p. 4;

E. Bellier de la Chavignerie and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire Général des Artistes de L'École française, Paris 1882, p. 447;

J.F. Heim, C. Béraud and P. Heim, Les Salons de peinture de la Révolution française 1789–1799, Paris 1989, p. 189.