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American Art

Sketch for "The Gross Clinic"

Sketch for Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007-1-1

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

1875

Thomas Eakins, American, 1844 - 1916

Oil on canvas
26 x 22 inches (66 x 55.9 cm)

Currently not on view

1929-184-31

Gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams, 1929

Label

In planning the complex elements of his monumental painting The Gross Clinic, Eakins made a number of oil sketches, including portrait studies of Dr. Samuel D. Gross and several of the assistants and students depicted in the amphitheater. In this surviving sketch, Eakins organized the major compositional elements of the painting, the critical relationships between the light and dark tones, and the touches of bright red.

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