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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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
- Exhibition poster of a Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1875)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room, hallway or entryway
- 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. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
