Antique French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Haystack Farm Pastoral Landscape by Max Bouvet 1890 Drawings & Prints one of bamboo and butterflies

one of bamboo and butterflies the other with the Imperial couple and three courtiers

The lid having handcut steel hinges most likely replaced in the 17th century from the previous steel 'snipe' hinges

Below the pediment is a cabinet with 34 drawers and three doors with Gothic tracery

silver weight is 57 grams

Antique French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Haystack Farm Pastoral Landscape by Max Bouvet 1890 Drawings & Prints one of bamboo and butterfliesA very attractive antique oil on canvas landscape painting by the French Post Impressionist artist Max Bouvet (1854 1942), the painting circa 1890. The painting depicts a pastoral scene of a quintessentially French haystack of conical form with a pointed top, the vibrant yellow of the hay is set against the calm blue Summer sky to the background. To the right of the painting is a windbreak of trees (most likely Poplar trees), to the foreground the