View of the Gardens of Villa Medici, by Michel Martin Drolling, 1811-16

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Michel Martin Drolling (7 March 1789, Paris – 9 January 1851, Paris), French history and portrait painter. The son of Martin Drolling and the brother of Louise-Adéone Drolling, he studied first with his father, and after 1806 with Jacques-Louis David. He won the Prix de Rome in 1810. Elected a member of Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1837, he became an influential teacher at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.