Joseph Fratrel
Allegory of Astronomy, ca. 1780, now in the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim
The Apotheosis of Elector Charles Theodore, 1779
Joseph Fratrel, born at Épinal in 1730, was a French scholar of Baudouin in Paris, and distinguished himself as a painter and etcher. He was court painter of King Stanislaus and the Elector-Palatine Charles Theodore: in the Darmstadt Museum is a portrait of the Electress. He died at Mannheim on May 15, 1783. The following are his best-known works:
- Joseph's Dream; after L. Krahe.
- The Miller's Son.
- St. Nicholas.
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