The Gross Clinic
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
About the painting
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).
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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.
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Image: Thomas Eakins; Wikimedia Commons · public domain