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The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier · 1864
- Artist
- Honoré Daumier French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (65.4 x 90.2 cm)
- Where to see it
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗
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About Honoré Daumier
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870. He earned a living producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still remembered today. He was a republican democrat, who satirized and lampooned the monarchy, aristocracy, clergy, politicians, the judiciary, lawyers, police, detectives, the wealthy, the mili
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