Abstract
Rococo Massacre : The Deformed Stag Antlers Painted by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for Eouis XV Between 1741 and 1752. The visual shock generated by the deformed stag antlers painted by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for King Louis XV, now kept in Fontainebleau, exposes the limitations of iconographie and monographic concerns for these works. The intricate and lost rituals of ancien régime venery, as well as the sexual and macabre content of these images complicate their interpretation. Integrating sensorial contact with carcasses, the king’s passion for hunting, the ideas of naturalists, and the aesthetic theories of Roger de Piles, ensures a better understanding of the state of sudden shock elicited by these images, as well as their violence, both on representational and structural levels.
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