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Honoré Daumier French
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 802
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. Bathed in light, the nursing mother, elderly woman, and sleeping boy emanate a serenity not often associated with public transport. Unfinished and squared for transfer, this picture closely corresponds to a watercolor of 1864 (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore) and a finished oil painting (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa).
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Fig. 1. Honoré Daumier, "The Third-Class Carriage," ca. 1863–65, oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (65.4 x 90.2 cm). National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 1946, no. 4633. Photo © National Gallery of Canada
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Fig. 2. Honoré Daumier, "The Third-Class Carriage," 1864, watercolor, ink wash, and charcoal on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper, 8 x 11 5/8 in. (20.3 x 29.5 cm). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 37.122
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Title: The Third-Class Carriage
Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
Date: 1864
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (65.4 x 90.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number: 29.100.129
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