• Director(s):

    ALLES (CHANTAL)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, 2P2L

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2014

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Jean-Siméon Chardin, a once lesser known, practically illiterate, 18th century painter, became counsellor and treasurer to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture by glorifying a genre that had up until then been frowned upon: the still life. 

Chardin’s biographer Pierre Rosenberg recalls the painter’s life, while chef Pierre Gagnaire, who is passionate about painting, chooses Chardin’s famous 1730 painting “Duck hanging on a wall with a Seville Orange” from the works exhibited at the Museum of Hunting in Paris, in order to concoct his very own creation. In his Berlin restaurant, along with chef Roel Lintermans, he attempts to reproduce a childhood dream: hare terrine with truffles. Game hunters will be called in, and the chef will cook the “duck à l’orange” with great patience and know-how.