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Print Size: approx: 9-1/2"x 12-3/4" Blank on Reverse |
Condition: This image is in excellent condition. Please see scan below for any imperfections. Margins are not shown due to scanner limitations. Margins may (or may not) include slight finger dents, tanning, or very small stains. 1939 reproduction of an antique painting. Printed in 1939 by Conde Nast Engravers/Press. This print is from a 1939 art journal.
This beautiful old antique/vintage picture would look awesome matted and framed!.
Subject: people, scene in a train, 3rd class, color, coloured, colored.
Title, Artist, and Subject information from Text-The text page will also be included with the print.
THIRD-CLASS CARRIAGE
HONORE DAUMIER (French School)
SAVE for a few portraits, and pictures of the poor and miserable to whom he was bound by his own experiences, and by the feelings of loneliness and oppression which bind together all human souls, Daumier's art was that of an underpaid practitioner attached to French journals. Born in Marseilles, he was brought to Paris in childhood by his father, a glazier who succeeded at nothing. From his seventh year he took life in his own hands, choosing the career of artist. He lived in the gutter and in the Louvre, studied Rembrandt and Michelangelo, worked from nature, and was always modeling in clay and wax. At twenty-one, having mastered lithography, he joined the staff of a radical sheet, and served a term in jail for a caricature of Louis-Philippe. Unchastened, he resumed his post, and till his death earned his bread as a social satirist. In 1848, about the time of his marriage to a seamstress, he began to paint in oils, achieving classic nobility in his first trials—but his canvases were rejected as incompetent. He bore his defeats stoically and returned to his lithographs, sometimes drawing on eight stones simultaneously in order to be free to paint. The strain was great and he was never free; his eyes failed him, and in his declining years he could not get fifty francs for a water color. He died totally blind and without a sou, in a little house that Corot, anonymously, had taken for him.
Daumier used no professional models—the working population of Paris was his model, he said. Without the trappings of antiquity, without heroic achings, he trained his vision on the commonest things and discovered new valuations of life. Lowly travelers stirred his compassion, and he painted them in many oils and water colors, always in the same postures, but with increasing simplification. The greatest is the Third-Class Carriage, an unfinished painting, rather low in tone, the color running from the subtlest mixtures of deep reds and greens into a rich monochrome. The figures in the compartment are real—not decorated pilferings from the old art—figures with incisive bulk and the force of things experienced and habitually pondered over, filled with the artist's pity and the weight of his magnanimity, with the substance poured into them by a great soul. In hands reduced to outlines but beautifully drawn, in coarse peasant faces, in bodies as solid as the clay from which they were fashioned, Daumier tells the story of the dreariness of one aspect of French life—and more, the whole story of suffering humanity.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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