Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.

The painting? “Man at His Bath,” 1884, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), the wealthy artist, yachtsman, boat designer, soldier, philatelist and horticulturalist, who, his other pursuits ...

Caillebotte’s most startling examination of the masculine figure exists in his male nudes. His 1884 painting “Man at His Bath” forces us into an intimate washroom, where we see the figure toweling off ...

“Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men” at the Getty Center is the largest show of the artist’s work staged in the western U.S. in the past 30 years. Co-curated by the Getty’s Scott Allan, it ...

Certainly, however, Caillebotte was homosocial ... In the rarely seen “Man at His Bath,” the tug assumes a culturally determined tension around male nudity. We unexpectedly find ourselves ...