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.