Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)
1875 · Oil on canvas · Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
- Year
- 1875
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 243.8 × 198.1 cm
- Collection
- Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (jointly owned)
- Movement
- Realism
The surgeon Samuel D. Gross, scalpel in his bloodied hand, pauses to lecture to students in the operating theatre of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia while his assistants work on a patient's thigh and the patient's mother hides her face. Eakins painted it in 1875 for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876; the art jury found it too shocking and it was hung among the army medical displays instead. Jefferson's alumni bought it in 1878 for two hundred dollars. When the university sold it in 2006, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts bought it together to keep it in the city.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A monumental, dark operating-theatre scene for a study, library or office, ideal for a surgeon or doctor, framed in black. It suits deep red, charcoal or warm white walls. Not for children's rooms.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1875)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
