The Sunken Road Ransart, John Singer Sargent, 1918
A view of a series of dugouts and bivouacs positioned in a sunken road near ransart in northern france. The bivouacs are assembled from sandbags and corrugated iron, some piles of rusty barbed wire nearby. Two british soldiers sit relaxing on the grass in the right foreground. Trees line the upper part of the sunken road. Date: 1918. Dimensions: 653 × 856 mm (25.70 × 33.70 in). Medium: watercolor on paper. Collection: Imperial War Museum London. The Sunken Road Ransart - Sargent, 1918