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The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: Guillaumin 74
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.
Exhibition history
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 de L'Hermitage, July 11-Oct. 20, 1996. Portland Museum of Art, Paris and the Countryside: Modern Life in Late-19th-century France, June 23–Oct. 15, 2006. Rome, Complesso Monumentale dell Vittoriano, From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism, Mar. 6–June 29, 2010, cat. 68, The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing, pp. 41, 43, 63, 220, 221.
Publications
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 209 A. The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1969-70 (Chicago, 1970), p. 9 (ill.), 24. G. Serret et D. Fabiani, Armand Guillaumin, 1841-1927, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint (Paris, 1971), no. 34. Charles S. Moffett, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, exhib. cat. (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1986), p. 204. Fondation de l'Hermitage, Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927, Un maître de l'Impressionisme français, exhib. cat. ( Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, 1996), no. 7.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841-1927)
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51.5 × 65 cm (20 1/4 × 25 9/16 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 86.4 × 11.5 cm (28 × 34 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Clive Runnells
- Accession no.
- 1970.95
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