Impressionist painting - oil on canvas 1850 - HST French school

Impressionist oil on canvas from the mid-19th century, representative of the French school. This twilight countryside scene is animated by several figures, representing an opposition between the return of a hard day's work of peasants with his haystack and his cart on the right side, then in parallel, on the left path, a lord of the castle walking back home. The painter's intention is probably to show this social opposition by dissociating these two categories separated by trees of a certain height and particularly dense, so that these two social categories do not see or cross each other. This countryside landscape which is centered on these two parallel paths (rare), also forms a very beautiful distant perspective. In a horizon laden with threatening clouds, we can also see a setting sun ending on the crest of low mountains for a very poetic rendering. The work is particularly representative of the French school and its romantic impressionists of the 19th century. His style is quite close to the greatest Masters of this period such as Théodore Rousseau, Charles Daubigny, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena, Jules Dupré, Jean-François Millet etc. This authentic oil on canvas which is almost 2 centuries old is unfortunately not signed but does not change its historical and artistic value in any way.