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Thomas Eakins : The Gross Clinic wikidata:Q1213936 reasonator:Q1213936
Artist
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) wikidata:Q214905 s:en:Author:Thomas Eakins q:en:Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins
Alternative names
pseudonym : Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwaite; Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins; Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins; C.D. Cook; Eakins
Description American painter, aquarellist, sculptor and photographer
Date of birth/death 25 July 1844 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Philadelphia Philadelphia
Work period 1869 Edit this at Wikidata –1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Philadelphia (ca. 1860–1916), Paris (1866–1870), Netherlands
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q214905
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre group portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Label from Philadelphia Museum of Art:
Dr. Samuel D. Gross appears in the surgical amphitheater at Jefferson Medical College, lit by the skylight overhead. Five doctors (one of whom is obscured by Dr. Gross) attend to the young patient, whose cut left thigh, bony buttocks, and sock-clad feet are all that is visible to the viewer. Chief of Clinic Dr. James M. Barton bends over the patient, probing the incision, while junior assistant Dr. Charles S. Briggs grips the patient's legs and Dr. Daniel M. Appel keeps the incision open with a retractor. The anesthetist (Dr. W. Joseph Hearn) holds a folded napkin soaked with chloroform over the patient's face, while the clinic clerk (Dr. Franklin West) records the proceedings. A woman at the left, traditionally identified as the patient's mother, cringes and shields her eyes, unable to look. Confident of the outcome of the operation, Dr. Gross calmly and majestically turns to address his students, including the intent figure of Thomas Eakins, who is seated at the right edge of the canvas.
Depicted people Samuel David Gross Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1875
date QS:P571,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 243.8 cm (95.9 in); width: 198.1 cm (77.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,243.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,198.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q510324
Accession number
2007-1-1 ( Philadelphia Museum of Art ) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Gift of the Alumni Association to Jefferson Medical College in 1878 and purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2007 with the generous support of more than 3,600 donors, 2007
Notes cleaned & restored in 2010 ( details )
References
Source/Photographer [1] , [2]
Permission
( Reusing this file ) 		public domain
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Public domain

The author died in 1916, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

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