The Third-Class Carriage, ca. 1862–64, Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (65.4 x 90.2 cm), Paintings, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), As a graphic artist and painter, Daumier chronicled the impact of industrialization on modern urban life in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. Here, he amplifies the subject of a lithograph made some ten years earlier: the hardship and quiet fortitude of third-class railway travelers.
The Third-Class Carriage, ca. 1862–64, Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (65.4 x 90.2 cm), Paintings, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), As a graphic artist and painter, Daumier chronicled the impact of industrialization on modern urban life in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. Here, he amplifies the subject of a lithograph made some ten years earlier: the hardship and quiet fortitude of third-class railway travelers