# The Anatomy Lesson of Joan Deyman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 100 x 134 cm ## Commentary <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note03.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue number:</a> Bredius 414. After the Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp in 1632, Rembrandt came back to the surgeons' guild for another anatomy lesson in 1656. The lecturer now was Dr. Joan Deyman. In three days starting on 29 January 1656, he demonstrated the anatomy of the body on the criminal Jores Fonteijn van Dienst, hung on the 28th. The lectures were a public spectacle for which admission was charged. The body parts exposed by Rembrandt in the painting are the abdominal cavity and the brain. The main source of the painting, which in the present state is only a fragment, is obviously Mantegna's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/mantegna/09/1deadchr.html'\)" href="/html/m/mantegna/09/1deadchr.html">Lamentation over the Dead Christ.</a> ## Related artworks - [A black drummer and commander mounted on mules; riding in profile]() - [A child being taught to walk]() - [A cottage beneath trees]() - [A girl sleeping]() - [A Man Laughing]() - [A man making water]() - [A Peddler Selling Spectacles \(The Allegory of Sight\)]() - [A Polish Nobleman]() - [A Scholar]() - [A two-humped camel]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the back]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the front]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()