# The Third-class Carriage [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DAUMIER, Honoré]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 65 x 90 cm ## Commentary In 1843 Daumier began to depict groups of people in public conveyances and waiting rooms, and for more than two decades he treated these themes in lithographs, watercolours, and oil paintings. His characterizations of travelers document the period in the mid-19th century when the cities of France and their inhabitants were undergoing the immense changes brought about by industrialization. A lifelong social critic, Daumier was able to infuse his renderings of contemporary life with a broad significance that touched on the inner character of mankind. ## Related artworks - [A Disgruntled Litigant]() - [Burden]() - [Charles Philipon]() - [Charles Philipon]() - [Crispin and Scapin]() - [Don Quixote and Sancho Panza]() - [Family on the Barricades in 1848]() - [Guizot or the Bore]() - [Intermission at the Comédie Française]() - [Jean-Auguste Chevandier de Valdrome, Parliamentarian \(The Fool\)]() - [Laundress on the Quai d'Anjou]() - [Laurent Cunin, Politician \(The Angry Man\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()