Daniel Sarrabat (1666–1748) was a French painter.

Daniel Sarrabat, Noah, His Family and the Animals Leaving the Ark, 1688.

Biography

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The son of a family of artists and scholars, Daniel Sarrabat was baptized in Charenton on October 10, 1666.[1] His brother, Isaac Sarrabat [fr], became a popular engraver.

Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1688, he spent the next two years studying at the French Academy in Rome.[2] In 1690, he won first prize in Rome for his painting "Noah and his family out of the ark."[3]

Returning to Lyon, he was the father of mathematician Nicolas Sarrabat.[4]

He died in Lyon on June 21, 1748.[5]

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