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 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.

Notes

• Media related to Joseph Fratrel at Wikimedia Commons
• This article incorporates text from the article "FRATREL, Joseph" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.