The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A boat has been torpedoed, and some of the bodies float in the sea. A German sailor looks out from his submarine and with his hands to his mouth cries: 'Good night! neutrals'. Neutrals refers to the men who are dead and no longer enemies. Coutin 1987 (This work was not published, but was intended for publication in 'Figaro', February-March 1917. There is a drawing of this subject in a private collection (Coutin 118B) and a sketch, dated 1916, in the Musee St Denis, Rheims (118C). It was included in 'De la Marne au Rhin', vol. 2, p. 31 (118E).
In the ruins of a village, a young boy explains to two soldiers: 'There was a grenade in her doll'. The girl lies dead, with her face on the ground. Coutin 1986 (25); Coutin 1987 (124D) This work was
Two barefooted children stand on a beach. The boy holds his shoes in his hand an looks at the girl who is holding sheafs of wheat in her hand. Many cargoes were lost through German torpedo attacks, an
A Deputy, walking over the bodies of French soldiers, gives German soldiers an account of a meeting of the United Chamber. Coutin 1987 (131D). This work was not published, but was intended for publica
In a bomb-devastated village, a little girl views a column of German prisoners marching past, and asks her mother: 'Tell me, mummy!...Are they the ones who killed daddy?' Coutin 1987 (66D). This work
A German soldier pulls a blanket out of the arms of an old woman. Another soldier looks on, and a girl runs away from a burning village. The Germans burnt and destroyed villages which they left behind
A woman tills a field. She is accompanied by a child, who guides a horse. There is a soldier's grave in the foreground (on the right of the image). Coutin 1987 (59D). This work was published in 'Le Fi
