L'animal dans la peinture de Chardin

Officially, in the Academy's terms, a specialist in the painting of animals and fruits (still life), Chardin was clearly interested in animals. His pictures display a very coherent treatment of the theme which culminated in the celebrated Raie, his academic reception piece, herald of his future career. This enigmatic painting fascinated his contemporaries, probably owing to its subject and most particular mode of representation with its unexpected inherent violence. The article attempts further to elucidate the nature and power of this effect and to link it to the new current of sensibility to the living which began in the 18th century

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