A file of blinded soldiers led hand on shoulder at sunset

A file of soldiers crosses the canvas from left to right, each with a bandage over his eyes and a hand on the shoulder of the man ahead; one lifts his foot high to find a step he cannot see. Below them the ground is covered with more bandaged men lying in khaki among packs and helmets. A second file is led in at the right past a low white sun, white bell tents stand on the horizon, and small aircraft mark the pale gold sky.

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the leading portrait painter of his generation, born in Florence to American parents and trained in Paris under Carolus-Duran. The scandal of Madame X drove him to London in 1884, where he painted the aristocracy and the great merchant families for two decades before abandoning commissioned portraiture in 1907 for watercolour, landscape and mural work. He travelled constantly — Venice, the Alps, Spain, the Middle East, Florida — painting in oil and watercolour with a bravura touch that was widely imitated and never matched. His work is held by the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tate and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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