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'''''The Gross Clinic''''' or '''''The Clinic of Dr. Gross''''' is an 1875 painting by American artist [[Thomas Eakins]]. It is [[oil on canvas]] and measures {{convert|8|ft|cm}} by {{convert|6.5|ft|cm}}.
The painting depicts Dr. [[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 side of the painting, next to the tunnel railing, with a white cuffed sleeve sketching or writing.<ref name=Smarth>{{cite web|last=Floryan|first=Meg|title=Eakins's The Gross Clinic|url=
Eakins's signature is painted on the front of the surgical table.
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==Restorations==
{{main|Conservation-restoration of Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic}}
The painting has [[art restoration|been restored]] three times. The first restoration between 1917 and 1925 substantially damaged the painting, rendering secondary figures in the composition inconsistently bright or reddish in color.<ref name="K1">Kennedy, Randy [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/arts/design/19eakins.html "Shedding Darkness on an Eakins Painting", ''The New York Times'', July 18, 2010]</ref> In 1929, [[Susan Macdowell Eakins]], the artist's widow, wrote a letter of complaint regarding the "fancy red light" that had falsified the painting's intended tones.
The painting's backing was reinforced with plywood by H. Stevenson in 1915. This was replaced in 1940 by [[Hannah Mee Horner]], who glued the painting to a plywood backing. Within two decades, this backing began to warp and threatened to tear the painting in half.<ref name=PMARestoreProject>{{cite web|title=The 1961 Conservation Treatment of ''The Gross Clinic''|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/conservation/14.html?page=3|work=Philadelphia Museum of Art (website)|publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art|accessdate=2011-06-04}}</ref>
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