Female Personification of Science
Catalogue
- Year
- 1776
- Dimensions
- Plate: 33.9 × 25.7 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 56.5 × 39.5 cm (22 1/4 × 15 9/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Joseph Fratrel
Artist
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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Record
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- Joseph Fratrel
- Year
- 1776
- Dimensions
- Plate: 33.9 × 25.7 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 56.5 × 39.5 cm (22 1/4 × 15 9/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1776-100651
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified