Jean-Baptiste Nattier

The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Jean-Baptiste Nattier is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers, Hermitage Museum and Museum of John Paul II Collection.

His father was the portrait painter, Marc Nattier and his mother was the miniaturist, Marie Courtois. His brother, Jean-Marc Nattier, also became a painter. Both brothers received their first art lessons from their father. From 1704 to 1709, he studied at the Académie de France à Rome and, in 1712, was received as a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture upon presentation of his painting, Joseph sollicité par la femme de Putiphar. He became involved in the sexual scandals surrounding Etienne-Benjamin Deschauffours, who was convicted for operating a pederastic network and executed. Nattier was imprisoned in the Bastille and his membership in the Académie was rescinded. Rather than suffer the fate of Deschauffour (whose corpse was publicly burned in the Place de Grève), he committed suicide by cutting his throat with an oyster knife. His professional belongings at the Acadėmie were returned to his family.

The authorities additionally record the headings Nattier L'Aine Nattier, Jean Baptiste Nattier, Jean-Baptiste, l'aine Nattier, Carlo Nattier and J.B. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Marc Nattier and Marie Courtois.

Jean-Baptiste Nattier is recorded as painter.