About This Artwork

Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin
French, 1841-1927

The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing, 1874

Oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 25 9/16 in. (51.5 x 65 cm)
Inscribed lower right: Guillaumin 74
Restricted gift of Mrs. Clive Runnells, 1970.95

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Day in the Country, May 29–August 16, 1984; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, October 18, 1984–January 6, 1985; Paris, Grand Palais, January 8–April 22, 1985, pp. 158–9, 161 (ill.) 164, cat. 51.

Chicago, Art Institute, Tour de France, December 9, 1989-March 4, 1990, no cat.

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, The year of Impressionism, September 20–November 27, 1994, p. 87 (ill.), cat. 20.

Cologne, Germany, Willraf-Richartz-Museum, Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927), ein vergessener Impressionist, January 28–May 5, 1996, cat. G7 (ill.).

Rome, Complesso Monumentale dell Vittoriano, From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism, 6 March 2010 – 29 June 2010, cat. 68, The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing, pp. 41, 43, 63, 220, 221.

Publication History

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.

Ownership History

Galerie Serret-Fauveau, Paris [according to Serret and Fabiani 1971]. Morton Duff Oliphant, Liverpool and London; sold Sothebys, London, December 10, 1969, lot 5, to Arthur Tooth & Sons; sold by Tooth to the Art Institute, April 1970, with funds provided by Mrs. Clive Runnells (died 1977), who maintained a partial life interest in the picture.