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The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing
Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841-1927)
1874
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- 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.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Clive Runnells
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
