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Joseph FratrelWW-1783-295005
1783·etching and drypoint on laid paper·plate: 45 × 26 cm (17 11/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
sheet: 45.5 × 27.5 cm (17 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1783
- Dimensions
- plate: 45 × 26 cm (17 11/16 × 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 45.5 × 27.5 cm (17 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Joseph Fratrel
Artist
Joseph Fratrel
Painting
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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- Joseph Fratrel
- Year
- 1783
- Dimensions
- plate: 45 × 26 cm (17 11/16 × 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 45.5 × 27.5 cm (17 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1783-295005
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- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
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