1874
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing is a 1874 oil by Armand Guillaumin, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows a large aqueduct crossing over a train line. It's set in a landscape with trees and buildings in the background. The aqueduct is the main focus of the painting. The artist's job with a railroad company helped him find scenes like this. He was interested in the Paris suburbs and painted them often. To learn more about the artist's use of light and dark, look into the technique: chiaroscuro.
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…
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.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Day in the Country, May 29–Aug. 16, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Grand Palais, Jan. 8–Apr. 22, 1985, cat. 51. Chicago, Art Institute, Tour de France, Dec. 9, 1989-Mar. 4, 1990, no cat. Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, 1874 nen—Pari: (dai ikkai inshoha ten) to sono jidai/Paris en 1874: L'Année de l'Impressionnisme, Sep. 20–Nov. 27, 1994, cat. 20. Cologne, Germany, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927), ein vergessener Impressionist, January 28–May 5, 1996, cat. G7; Lausanne, Switzerland, Foundation…
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Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927) was a French artist, born in Paris.
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