Jean Baptiste Fautelet, a French painter, born in Bordeaux in 1822. He is a disciple of Meissonnier's style of genre painting. His earliest pictures,A Young Man Reading" (1845),The Two Roses," and "The Concert" (1847), were succeeded in 1848-,9 by "Nonchalance" and "The Carver." The government purchased in 1855 his Two Musicians" for the Luxembourg. Among his later paintings is The Prodigal Son (1869).