他接受了他的第一个指令从他的父亲，从他的伯父，历史画家让Jouvenet（1644年至1717年）。他就读于皇家学院于1703年，并提出了一系列的绘图玛丽梅迪西斯画周期由鲁本斯在卢森堡宫 ; 根据这些图纸版画出版（1710）提出著名NATTIER。他本人应用于复制的图片卢森堡画廊，他拒绝继续到罗马法兰西学院，虽然他采取了在巴黎科学院一等奖十五岁。1715年他去了阿姆斯特丹，在彼得大帝当时住，并涂上沙皇和肖像女皇叶卡捷琳娜，但拒绝要约前往俄罗斯。

NATTIER渴望成为历史画家。1715之间和1720他致力于组成，如“Pultawa之战”，他画了彼得大帝和“中石化现象菲纽斯和他的同伴”，这导致他当选为院士。

1720年造成的方案的金融崩溃法律所有，但毁了NATTIER，谁发现自己被迫把自己的全部精力写照，这是更有利可图的。他成为人工女士们的画家路易十五的宫廷。他随后复活的寓言肖像，其中一个活生生的人被描述为一个希腊罗马女神或其他神话人物的流派。

NATTIER在这种模式下宫女的优雅和迷人的画像很时髦，部分原因是因为他可以美化保姆，同时还保留了她的肖像。他简单的肖像画最显着的例子是“玛丽Leczinska”在第戎美术馆，和一群他的家人包围的艺术家，日期1730年他在巴黎死于1766年“艺术家被家人包围”

He received his first instruction from his father, from his uncle, history painter Jean Jouvenet (1644 to 1717). He studied at the Royal Academy in 1703, and put forward a series of painting drawing cycle Malimei Medicis by Lubensi Luxemburg in the palace; according to these drawings and prints published (1710) put forward the famous NATTIER. He applied himself to the reproduction of the picture at the Luxemburg Gallery, which he refused to continue to College France in Rome, although he took the first prize at the Paris Academy of Sciences fifteen. In 1715 he went to Amsterdam, where Peter the great lived, and painted the Tsar and portrait queen, but refused to offer to go to Russia in.
NATTIER aspires to be a history painter. Between 1715 and 1720 he devoted himself to the composition, such as the "battle of Pultawa", which he painted the great Peter and the "phenomenon of Sinopec Phinius and his companions", which led him to be elected academician.
1720 resulted in the program's financial collapse of all laws, but ruined the NATTIER, who found themselves forced to put all their energy into portraiture, which was more profitable. He became the court of Louis Jugo, the painter of artificial ladies. The allegorical portrait of his subsequent resurrection, in which a living man is described as a Greek goddess of Rome or other mythological figure.
In this mode the NATTIER maid's elegant and charming portrait is very stylish, partly because he can beautify the nanny, and keeps her portrait. He has a portrait of the most notable example is the "Marie Leczinska" at the Dijon Art Museum, surrounded by his family and a group of artists, the date of 1730 he died in Paris on 1766 "the artist is surrounded by my family"