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  • Untitled [Two Dragoons on Horseback Escort a Peasant and His Dog in the Rain] Untitled [Two Dragoons on Horseback Escort a Peasant and His Dog in the Rain]

    (art) Made by: Scott, Georges (artist) 1915

    image: Against the background of a flat, rainwashed landscape - a windmill and a village to the left - two French mounted dragoons escort a peasant, possibly a spy, and his dog for interrogation. All three figures face the viewer. The rémarque at the...

  • The Last Moments The Last Moments

    (art) Made by: Potter, Charles

    image: a plane crash-landing on the horizon, followed by a stream of black smoke. In the foreground a triangular sign and a pole are silhouetted on a hillside against a glowing sky.

  • [Untitled] [Untitled]

    (art) Made by: Brouet, Auguste 1916

    image: A group of five heavily laden poilus escort two German prisoners of war from left to right across a flat landscape. In the background to the right of the composition stands a cottage protected by a large tree.

  • Reprisal Reprisal

    (art) Made by: Currie, Ken 1991

    image: a bare-chested and pot-bellied man wearing a cone-shaped hat in the process of striking another person, who kneels on the ground with their head covered. The man executing the punishment brandishes what could be a machete or a curved stick of some...

  • Reparation de Fortune du Pont de Meaure [Temporary Repairs at Meure Bridge] Reparation de Fortune du Pont de Meaure [Temporary Repairs at Meure Bridge]

    (art) Made by: Augis, Marcel

    image: A repaired bridge over the River Marne with a medieval lath and timber building on the left. An avenue of trees on right bank of the river partially obscures a chateau in the distance

  • Piece de 75 - Plaines des Flandres, 1915 [75mm filed Gun, Flanders Plain 1915] Piece de 75 - Plaines des Flandres, 1915 [75mm filed Gun, Flanders Plain 1915]

    (art) Made by: Augis, Marcel

    image: A snow covered landscape, with red sunset. Brown scrub emerges from centre to left and a 75mm artillery piece centre right. In the right middle distance, a French Artilleryman, wearing a cape, faces forward.

  • Le Défi, 1915 [The Challenge, 1915] Le Défi, 1915 [The Challenge, 1915]

    (art) Made by: Bernard, Edouard 1915

    image: Marianne clad in bonnet rouge and diaphanous garment, blowing forward together with her hair, sits 'side-saddle' on the barrel of a French 75mm artillery piece, both facing left. With both her hands, the thumb of the right against the tip of her...

  • Le Vieux Pont de Meaure sur la Marne detruit par le Génie Français 1914 [The Old Bridge at Meaure on the Marne, destroyed by
French Sappers 1914.] Le Vieux Pont de Meaure sur la Marne detruit par le Génie Français 1914 [The Old Bridge at Meaure on the Marne, destroyed by French Sappers 1914.]

    (art) Made by: Augis, Marcel

    image: A ruined bridge over the River Marne with a medieval lath and timber building on left. An avenue of trees on right bank of river partially obscures a chateau in the distance