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The article focuses on Rembrandt's two paintings of "The Slaughtered Ox." It mentions that the first painting, dated 1630s, is in the Glasgow Art Gallery in Scotland while the second version, dated 1655, is in the Louvre in Paris, France. The author declares that the two pictures are very similar in composition and mood, showing the darkened interior of a room which a slaughtered ox hangs lashed to a cross beam by hind legs. He adds that, in both works, there is a woman which seems to be mopping in the Glasgow painting while in the Louvre painting, she is standing at the door of the stairway. Joseph Müller believes that the painting might represent the idea of death while E. de Jongh associated the picture with the general theme of memento mori in Dutch art.