The Agnew Clinic is an 1889 oil painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. It was commissioned to honor anatomist and surgeon David Hayes Agnew, on his retirement from teaching at the University of Pe
Eakins, Thomas The Agnew Clinic
The Gross Clinic (1875). Comparing The Agnew Clinic with Eakins's earlier darker treatment of the same subject illustrates the evolving understanding of surgical hygiene during the intervening 14 years.
G-237. Oil study of Dr. Agnew, Yale University Art Gallery
G-236. Compositional sketch, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting on canvas by Rembrandt housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands. It was originally created to be displayed by the Surge
The Agnew Clinic
…the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as the two institutions share ownership. The painting echoes the subject and treatment of Rembrandt's famous Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632; in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands), and other earlier depictions of public surgery such as the frontispiece of Andreas Vesalius's…
Rembrandt The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp
The corpse's navel is formed from the letter R.
Rembrandt: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman (1656)
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp (The University of Edinburgh Fine Art)