Joseph Fratrel

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.

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