A pregnant female, standing with one arm raised above her head: the top of the image shows the head, trunk and upper limbs, and the lower half depicts the lower limbs and the contents of the thorax and abdomen.
Rembrandt’s second anatomy lesson is a fragment of a group portrait. In 1723 most of the canvas was destroyed by fire. The remaining central section shows Dr Jan Deijman performing an autopsy on a dead man’s brains.