In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
With the subject of Carcasses, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was following an old artistic tradition. He was inspired by Rembrandt's (1606-1669) Slaughtered Ox (see photo) which he would have seen at the Louvre Museum. Decamps greatly admired the Dutch master and owned several paintings by him. In spite of the inspiration from Rembrandt, Decamps's watercolor of about 200 years later conveys a different mood. Instead of focusing on a single butchered corpse as Rembrandt had, Decamps viewed his bodies and slabs of meat from further back, and he included domestic objects and a background figure standing at a table. Decamps's resulting image stands less as a symbol of death and more as a matter-of-fact representation of daily life.
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Joachim Beuckelaer — Le porc équarré
Augustin Théodule Ribot — Leg
Jan Victors — The Slaughtered Hog
Abraham van den Hecken — The Slaughtered Ox
Wybrand Hendriks — Hunting Still Life in a Forest
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755) — A Hare and a Leg o
Alonso de Escobar — Still Life
Claude Monet — Still life with flesh
Willem van Aelst — Still Life with Dead Game
Mariano Fortuny, 1838–1874 — A Morrocan farrier at left acco
Aert Pietersz. — Couples Making Love at a Country Inn
Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1684) — The Barn
