The Gross Clinic

Painting · 1875 · Philadelphia · Americas

Surgery with blood on the scalpel; peak of American Realism, rejected by the 1876 Centennial art jury

Author: Thomas Eakins
Style: Realism — Paint what you see: peasants, labourers and the provinces at the scale of history painting
Century: 19th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1872 Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet · Impressionism · Le Havre
1865–1869 War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy · Realism · Yasnaya Polyana
1889 The Starry Night — Vincent van Gogh · Post-Impressionism · Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
1893 The Scream — Edvard Munch · Expressionism · Kristiania (Oslo)
1876 Bal du moulin de la Galette — Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Impressionism · Paris, Montmartre
1877 Paris Street; Rainy Day — Gustave Caillebotte · Impressionism · Paris, Place de Dublin
1877 Swan Lake — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Romanticism · Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre
1870–1873 Barge Haulers on the Volga — Ilya Repin · Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) · Saint Petersburg