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.).

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.