Homme au bain (painting)

Homme au bain (English title: Man at His Bath) is an 1884 oil painting by French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte.

[1][2] By this point in his career, Caillebotte had painted many images with great fidelity to realistic portrayals of people and their environment.

As with his Les raboteurs de parquet (English title: The Floor Scrapers), Caillebotte did not attempt to show an idealized form of masculinity, but instead depicted a typical 19th-century male.

[7] In preparation for its Degas and the Nude exhibition in 2011, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), decided to purchase the painting, which it already had held on loan since earlier that year.

Those paintings were also by artists more recognized to the general public than the lesser-known Caillebotte: they included work by Monet, Renoir and Gauguin.