Book IV, Chapter 2 of Soutine describes the painter’s week-long marathon painting session that produced his Carcass of Beef series. His motif was Rembrandt’s carcass painting in the Louvre. But Soutine typically made copies by re-staging pictures. He would pose a model like the woman in a Courbet painting or buy a ray fish to copy a Chardin. So, of course, he procured a side of beef to quote Rembrandt. Scroll down to the second of the Ober gallery videos in the previous post for a reading of Part II of the chapter. Here are some of the paintings involved.