About Joseph Fratrel
Lived 1727 – 1783 (aged 55). Joseph Fratrel was a French painter, etcher and artist.
Allegory of Astronomy, ca. 1780, now in the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim
Joseph Fratrel, was a distinguished painter and etcher in France. Born at Épinal in 1730, he was a scholar of Baudouin in Paris. He became court painter for 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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Who was Joseph Fratrel?
French painter (1727-1783)
When was Joseph Fratrel born?
Joseph Fratrel was born on 9 November 1727 in Épinal.
When did Joseph Fratrel die?
Joseph Fratrel died on 15 May 1783 in Mannheim.
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Joseph Fratrel was a painter, etcher and artist.
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Joseph Fratrel was French.
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