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Martin Drölling
French, 1752–1817
Young Woman in an English Garden
c. 1795
A woman gazes expectantly into the distance, her expression suggesting that the letter in her hand is from a lover. This work was exhibited in 1795 as one of a pair; the second painting (now in a private collection) implies an unhappy end to the affair. The English garden mentioned in the title, while not seen in the image, would have added a picturesque note for French audiences.
Image Caption
Martin Drölling, Young Woman in an English Garden, c. 1795, oil on canvas or paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.725
Medium
oil on canvas or paper
Dimensions
17 7/8 x 14 3/4 in. (45.4 x 37.5 cm)
Object Number
1955.725
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Paris: Salon de 1795.. . Collection des Livrets des Anciennes Expositions.. Paris: Liepmannsohn, Editeur.. 1871.. Paris: Ecole des Beaux-Arts.. Tableaux des maîtres anciens, au profit des inondés du Midi.. 1887.. . Art Prices Current, New Series.. vol. 15, part A.. London: Art Trade Press, Ltd.. 1936.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Ludig, Sandra G. Between the Lines: Ladies and Letters at the Clark. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Rand, Richard. Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in 18th-Century France. Exhibition catalogue. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Célestin Gandais, Paris; Delestre (by 1887–1936, his sale, Drouot, Paris, 14 May 1936, no. 129, pl. 29, as Madame Dugazon dans le rôle de la meunière [?], sold to Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1936–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.