''The Flayed Ox'' (''Le Bœuf écorché'') or ''The Slaughtered Ox'' is a 1925 oil on canvas painting by

Chaïm Soutine Chaïm Soutine (; ; ; 13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris. Inspired by clas ...

, inspired by the painting of the same name by

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), mononymously known as Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and Drawing, draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in ...

. Measuring 2.02 m by 1.14 m, it is now in the

Museum of Grenoble The Museum of Grenoble () is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France. Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient ...

, which bought it in 1932 from the galerie Pierre-Loeb.Notice du Bœuf écorché
du musée de Grenoble sur le site ''navigart.fr''. It is part of a series of paintings produced on the same subject in the same era with the same title by Soutine, now split between different museums and private collections across the world, notably in Minneapolis and Amsterdam.

Jean-Marc Rochette Jean-Marc Rochette (born 23 April 1956) is a French painter, illustrator and comics creator. He is best known and recognized for the comic book series '' Edmond le Cochon'' and ''Le Transperceneige'', as well as for his illustrations of the liter ...

reproduced it several times in his autobigoraphical 2018 comic '' Ailefroide, altitude 3954''.

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