| Summary: | This article opens with a two-fold astonishment: both the astonishment of the children discovering the painted walls of the cave of Lascaux and the astonishment of the reader of Bataille à Lascaux when he discovers a series of pictures showing not only these painted walls, but also Georges Bataille and his friends, including the photographer and publisher of the book Lascaux ou la naissance de l'art. This series of pictures is so different from what can be seen in Bataille's book which confronts us immediately with the painted walls. Such is the starting point of a reflection which includes the photographer himself. At the end of this journey, we find the man lying naked at the foot of the beast in the well of the cave, whose death was testified for the first time by the painters of Lascaux. Much later, Bataille's photographer testified Bataille himself in front of the painted walls as a witness of these animals' rising up, very later after the man of the Well. This article constructs the chaining of these scenes and questions its meaning.
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