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Naval Bathhouse (Flottans badhus)

1907

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The story

The navy bathhouse stood on Skeppsholmen, where soldier prostitution was rife and Stockholm's bathhouses were known through scandals as places where men had sex with men. In the 1960s the Thiel Gallery took the painting down, and scholars still debate whether it shows vitalist health or homoerotic desire.

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Object details

Title: Naval Bathhouse (Flottans badhus)
Artist: Eugène Jansson
Date: 1907
Culture: Not recorded
Medium
Object type: Other
Collection: Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0899
Original image: 1920 × 1240 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Eugène Jansson. Naval Bathhouse (Flottans badhus). 1907. Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0899/