Ruins of the church of Villers-Bretonneux

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Accession Number ART19585
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 70.5 cm x 99.5 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description tempera and oil on felt paper
Maker Chapman, Evelyn
Place made France
Date made 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work

Description

Bomb-damaged ruins of the church at Villers-Bretonneux. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of France with her father, who was attached to the New Zealand War Graves Commission. She was one of the first Australian female artist to have the opportunity to depict the devastation of the battlefields of the western front.