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Trace the railway into the distance, then follow the aqueduct across it. Which structure carries your eye sideways, and which carries it deeper into the scene?
Guillaumin painted the recently built aqueduct where it crossed the railway to Sceaux during the expansion of Paris’s suburbs. He later showed the painting at the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877. The railway, masonry, and grassy slopes belong to one landscape: modern infrastructure is a central subject rather than something excluded from the view.
Oil on canvas · 51.5 × 65 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Clive Runnells
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.