A Slaughtered Ox

The painting shows a slaughtered ox suspended from a rough wooden beam in a dim interior, with the carcass forming a central vertical mass against the surrounding darkness. A single directional light source illuminates the flesh with pale highlights while the background remains deep and shadowy, creating a dramatic chiaroscuro effect. The color palette is restrained to warm browns, ochres, and ivory whites, and the paint is applied with thick, expressive brushwork that gives the meat a tactile, sculptural texture and emphasizes volume and gravity.