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The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing
Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841-1927)LinkedCulture matchlcp-4bd61323de75
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 33212
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Armand Guillaumin painted this aqueduct shortly after it was built. Passing over a train line to the Paris suburb of Sceaux, the aqueduct was constructed during a period of rapid development around the French capital. Guillaumin encountered such scenes while working in security for a railroad company, a job that allowed him to travel and sketch in different places on the outskirts of the city. Guillaumin shared this interest in the Paris suburbs with his fellow Impressionists—especially Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro , with whom he painted in the 1870s. He exhibited this painting in the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877.
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- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Clive Runnells
- Provenance
- Galerie Serret-Fauveau, Paris [according to Serret and Fabiani 1971]. Morton Duff Oliphant (1912-1978), Liverpool and London; sold Sothebys, London, Dec. 10, 1969, lot 5, to Arthur Tooth & Sons; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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