The Third-Class Carriage [SEP] creator
The Third-Class Carriage
The Third-Class Carriage is a c. 1862–1864 oil on canvas painting by Honoré Daumier, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A similar painting by Daumier with the same title is in the National Gallery of Canada.
Daumier had drawn and painted images of rail travel since the 1840s. This version of "The Third-Class Carriage" appears to be closely related to an 1864 watercolor now in the Walters Art Museum. The painting is unfinished, and is squared for transfer
class carriage is for the Europeans. The much humbler second and third class carriages were for the Chinese and the Natives. The "pikulan" carriage ("pikolanwagen") is used for transporting goods e.g. fish and vegetables, typical of Batavia. Of the passenger traffic, about 15 percent came from the first class carriage and 85 percent from the second and third class carriage. In 1937, the BVM owned 42 large motor cars, 39 small motor cars, 23 flat trucks, and 52 trailers.
History Post-independence