"At the Railroad Station" 1850s

"At the Railroad Station" is a graphite drawing by the French artist Pierre-Numa Bassaget, known as Numa, created in the 1850s. The drawing captures the bustle of a train station, with a chaotic crowd of people rushing about. It features a man in the foreground who has fallen to the ground, suggesting the chaos of a crowded train station during the early years of this new mode of transportation. The drawing is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.