The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins · 1875
The story
The Gross Clinic or The Clinic of Dr. Gross is an 1875 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins. It is an oil on canvas and measures 8 feet (240 cm) by 6.5 feet (200 cm).
The painting depicts Samuel D. Gross, a seventy-year-old professor dressed in a black frock coat, lecturing a group of Jefferson Medical College students. Included among the group is a self-portrait of Eakins, who is seen at the right-hand edge of the painting, next to the tunnel railing, with a white cuffed sleeve sketching or writing. Seen over Gross's right shoulder (on the left-hand side of the painting) is the clinic clerk, Franklin West, taking notes on the operation.
Eakins's signature is painted on the front of the surgical table.
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins
- Date
- 1875
- Collection
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
- Movement
- French Realism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 243.8 × 198.1 cm
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