Pastoral Scene At Dusk With Blood-Red Sky France as perhaps this is a

as perhaps this is a commentary on urban industrialisation

There seems to be some flecks of white paint here and there

note how the large tree guides our eye towards the figures and then across to the mountains on our right

Canvas professionally relined within the last 50 years

Provenance Zurich

Pastoral Scene At Dusk With Blood-Red Sky France as perhaps this is aA late 19th century oil on wood depicting a beautiful pastoral view across distant hills before a blood red sky. The brushwork feels fluid and impressionistic, so perhaps this was painted en plein air, while the artist caught the last of the evenings glow. Towards the foreground, the two cows are little more than six or seven brush marks, while the reeds are just quickly sketched in. The painting is housed within a gilded swept frame with coved sides