Jean-Baptiste Nattier (1678-1726)

• Was a French painter.

• 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.

• In 1712, was received as a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

• He became involved the sexual scandals surrounding Benjamin Deschauffour, 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• Nattier was imprisoned in the Bastille and his membership in the Académie was rescinded.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.

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