"Daumier highlighted socioeconomic distinctions in the newly modernized urban environment in a group of paintings executed around 1864 that illustrate the experience of modern rail travel in first-, second-, and third-class train compartments. In 'The First-Class Carriage', there is almost no physical or psychological contact among the four well-dressed figures, whereas 'The Third-Class Carriage' is tightly packed with an anonymous crowd of working-class men and women."
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Quote of Ross Finocchio, 2004 in: his essay 'Nineteenth-Century French Realism', Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2004
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