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]