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Athletes

1912

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The story

After years of blue night views of Stockholm, Jansson turned to muscular nude men lifting weights and exercising, models he found as a regular at the navy bathhouse. Historians now believe he was gay, and his brother Adrian burned his letters, possibly to avoid scandal.

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Object details

Title: Athletes
Artist: Eugène Jansson
Date: 1912
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (NM 2133)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0901
Original image: 1920 × 2525 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Eugène Jansson. Athletes. 1912. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (NM 2133). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0901/