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The Third-Class Carriage, painted in the realist style by Honoré Daumier, depicts working-class travelers in a third-class railway car. The realists' emphasis on accurately portraying the experiences of average working people was largely a rejection of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux Duval, which instead their subjects' beauty or heroism while hiding all imperfection.