Etaples is a small town near the coast of Normandy. During World War I, it was behind the lines and British troops were sent there for hospital treatment and convalescence. By the time Lavery arrived in France in 1919, many large, though still informal, cemeteries existed, maintained by the female staff of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in their brown work uniforms. Lavery was clearly moved by this view of the Etaples cemetery. He chose the moment when a steam train races by in the distance, noisily invading the women standing among the graves, and is a brutal reminder that life goes on no matter what.
John Lavery (Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 March 1856 - Kilkenny, Ireland, 10 January 1941) was an Irish painter, best known for his aestheticist portraits.
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