Slaughtered Ox, also known as Flayed Ox, Side of Beef, or Carcass of Beef, is a 1655 oil on beech panel still life painting by Rembrandt. It has been in the collection of the Louvre in Paris since 1857.

Slaughtered Ox, 1655 by Rembrandt van Rijn. From his earliest years, Rembrandt clearly favored historical painting as a genre and produced works based on biblical, mythological, or literary stories, which may be compared with the Italian Renaissance tradition.

Oct 15, 2020 · Slaughtered Ox, also known as Flayed Ox, Side of Beef, or Carcass of Beef, is a 1655 oil on beech panel still life painting by Rembrandt. It has been in the collection of the Louvre in Paris since 1857.

“The Carcass of an Ox (Slaughtered Ox)” by Rembrandt depicts the butchered cadaver of an ox hung upside down. The ox is suspended in a dimly lit and sparse Dutch kitchen or barn.

Feb 4, 2016 · Art historian Kenneth Craig published the most compelling interpretation of the Slaughtered Ox, explicating it is a religious painting by demonstrating Rembrandt distilled the essence of a storied Flemish vanitas tradition that depicted the Prodigal Son parable by prominently featuring a flayed carcass as allegorical of Christ’s crucifixion ...

The Slaughtered Ox. The earlier is in the Glasgow Art Gallery (P1. 38a).1 It is usually dated to the late 163os. The second version, inscribed with the date 1655, is in the Louvre (P1. 38c).2 The two pictures are very similar in composi-tion and mood. Rembrandt shows the darkened interior of a room in which a slaughtered ox

This work representing the splayed carcass of an ox is a variation on Rembrandt’s examples of the subject—one dated 1655 in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and an earlier version in the …

Slaughtered Ox, also known as Flayed Ox, Side of Beef, or Carcass of Beef, is a 1655 oil on beech panel still life painting by Rembrandt. It has been in the collection of the Louvre in Paris since 1857.

The Slaughtered Ox The central motif in Marten van Cleve’s painting is a gutted ox. Here the artist takes an image reminiscent of a still life and uses it to create a symbol of death and the transitoriness of life.

This picture, one of Rembrandt's most affecting paintings, shows the carcass of an ox hung up to bleed. While showing the details of the rack on which the butchered animal is hung and the condition of the carcass, it is not a clinical picture.