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Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), oil on canvas by Thomas Eakins, 1875; part of the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Art Museum. 2 Ć 2.5 m.
In the painting The Agnew Clinic (1889) by Thomas Eakins, the medical procedure being performed is a partial mastectomy.1